12 OCTOBER 1895, Page 13

A Bachelor Maid. By Mrs. Burton Harrison. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—This

tale, a volume of the "Antonym Library," shows the author of the " Anglomaniacs " as equal to herself. That, we take it, is sufficient praise. The plot is simple enough. Morison Irving dismisses her engaged lover, Alec Gordon, because she thinks that a woman ought to live her own life, and cannot do so if she is married. There is no harm in anticipating the result, which every reader will have guessed, that, after trying the experiment of living her own life, she is glad to ask his pardon, and take him, or be taken by him back again. How this result is worked out is told in a very interesting way.