Married Life. By May Edginton. (Cassell and Co. Gs. net.)—
Pendia advice to those about to marry—" Don't ! "—might well be applied to the way in which the hero and heroine of this novel face their responsibilities its the married state. On an income of 2200 a year they try to live as luxuriously as if they had twice as much again, with the consequence that the wife gets entirely worn out through being cook, houeeruaid, nurse, and everything else. Had these young people read the wartime books as to how to rut a household without servants they would have saved them- selves much embarrassment, and there would have been no story; but presumably the date of the novel 16 before the war." In the end the husband goes away on business for a year, and the wife flints freedom so agreeable that, when he returns she refuses to have him back, until she discovers that he is makinglove to some one • aftsed. By lotus Cialmortlly. London: W. licinctum. 162. odd
else ; on which, with the rapidity of a weathercock in a hurricane' aho turns right round, and the reader will leave her entering on another course of domesticity. Whether with such very self- centred young people the second essay would prove more successful than the fret may be doubted.
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