12 MARCH 1910, Page 28

A Wardour Street Idyll. By Sophie Cole. (Mills and Boon.

6s.)—This is a story of a gentleman who keeps a curiosity-shop in Wardour Street, and his lady typist, with whom he inevitably falls in love. The complication is that he has been deserted by his wife, and is therefore not free to marry. Miss Cole gives an interesting study of business life in London, but perhaps the pleasantest things in the book are the glimpses of the Aveling family with whom the heroine boards. A slight element of the

supernatural is introduced by a small Oriental ivory figure which the characters christen Nirvana ; but the reader will not find this very convincing. The heroine, Isobel, is an attractive figure, but the hero, with his eyeglass and his indifference, is rather tiresome.