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UNMARRIED LIFE. By John North. (Jarrolds. 7s. 6d.)—This is a

comedy of cross purposes, in which the chief characters are a widow, anxious to marry her daughter to a supposedly rising financier, and a group of young people whose relationships exhibit in a complicated manner the rule of contrary. The whole action takes place within twenty-four hours. Some of the situations are ingenious. But a story of this kind needs to move at a brisker pace.