A WOMAN IN EXILE. By Horace Annesley Vaehell. (Hutchinson. 7s.
6d. net.)—In A Woman in Exile Mr. Vaellea gives us a very remarkable book—remarkable, too, in a way which nothing that this author has done before would lead one to • expect. The psychological problem 'of an English woman of old family married to a Western American has never-been better put. In- this instance the. Golden West predominates over England and, though the wife remains English, her children are real Americans. To anyone knowing the East of America the contrast of the Western mind with that of the Eastern seems as great as that of the Eastern with that of the British. Apart from these considerations, the novel as a story is exceedingly good reading, the description of the San Francisco earthquake and great lire in 1906 being especially vivid. Lovers of children will delight in the account of young " Perry " and his prayer about the pigs and his old nurse.
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