Marjory Mallory. By Ivan Hodgkinson. (T. Fisher Us win. 6s.)—Mr.
Hodgkinson has made his first adventure into fiction in the "First Novel Library," where he is, at all events, in good company. In his story he has chosen to concentrate all his energies on the drawing of the one central figure, and to introduce his other characters merely as a background to her. He has made a quiet, capable study of the disillusionment of a typically modern girl, of the kind of girl who, brought up to"covet earnestly the best things," marries a man who." was the happy possessor of many of the slighter virtues ; that is to say, he had few small vices." We confess to a certain sympathy with Crawshay's *British " ideas, which, although he feels no passion in his marriage, prevent his divorcing Marjory on her elopment with Tremaine. Indeed, the heroine herself is all the more interesting for being slightly irritating, and our only regret on finishing the book is that Mr. Hodgkinson should have allowed touches of conventionality to mar work which is in many ways individual and dignified.
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