The Aylesbury& By Harold Downs. ( C. W. Daniel. 3s. 6d.
net.)—When a girl of the lower middle-class discovers that the well-to-doyoung man with whom she is in love is a bounder, the effects on herself and on her family are sure to be interesting. At least, as Mr. Downs shows them they are extremely interesting, and in his handling of the dialogue he has the grip of a real playwright. The last scene of the last act takes place four months after the rest of the action, and perhaps it was thiswhich made us think it too obviously an invention. But the qualities under- lying good drama are here, and when Mr. Downs has learnt to cover up every trace of fabrication and to put a. little more complexity into characters, even though they are subordinate ones, he should write something very' well worth reading.
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