15 FEBRUARY 1913, Page 25

Where Are YouGoing To — ? By Elizabeth Robins. (W. Heine- mann.

6s.)—Miss Robins's writing is hardly up to her usual standard in this book. Perhaps the fact of its being a novel with a purpose has a little blinded the author to the canons of her art, for it must be confessed that the story is thin and the characters are rather slightly sketched. The horror of kidnapping in the white slave traffic is the motive of the book, and the plot by which the heroine and her sister are carried off is quite devilish in its ingenuity. It is to be hoped that the Act lately passed will strengthen the power of the law to defeat this infamous traffic and that occurrences such as that described by Miss Robins will become so dangerous that it will not be worth while to run the risk of undertaking them.