A Girl's Marriage. By Agnes Gordon Lennox. (John Lane. 6s.)—The
beginning of this story, with the account of the life of the heroine Fay Beaumont and her family of cheerful young brothers, is very pretty reading, but it is difficult to believe in her having thought it necessary to contract so very hasty a marriage in order to free her favourite brother from his promise not to marry at all. Surely any one would have known that an engagement would have been sufficient to do this, and that a hurried and secret marriagtwas quite un- necessary. Motor accidents are a little too useful just now in removing inconvenient characters in fiction, and Fay's hastily acquired husband is killed in one. In real life thb victims are not so discriminatingly chosen. The novel is slight, but portrays a certain knowledge of character and power of writing, and the heroine, in spite of her follies, is decidedly attractive.
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