16 JULY 1910, Page 24

The One who Came After. By David Lyall. (Hodder and

Stoughton. 6s.)—This is the story of a Scotch girl of artistic temperament who is left an orphan with very small means of support. After hurriedly trying what life is like with her various relations, she, again hurriedly, marries a Scotch minister, and almost as quickly repents. The changes in the book are a little too like the changes of a magic lantern ; but in spite of this the characters are well drawn, and the reader will sympathise with most of them. Some people, however, will make an exception as to that most irritating young lady round whom they all revolve. Mrs. Prentice is not a particularly convincing figure ; her change from being a militant suffragist to being an ardent theosophist is rather abrupt.