18 OCTOBER 1902, Page 23

George and Son. By Edward H. Cooper. (John Long. 6s.)—

George and Son is as sordid a little tragedy as it is possible to con- ceive. The father and son are an abominable pair of adventurers, but they are so worsted by fate that it is difficult to avoid sym- pathising, if not with both, at any rate with the son. All the same, he richly deserves his fate, being as idle, unscrupulous, and pleasure-loving a youth as it is possible to conceive. The story, like most of Mr. Cooper's work, has a great deal of "go," but it contains more races than there is space for in less than three hundred pages.