The Herb - Moon. By John Oliver Hobbes. (T. Fisher Unwin.) critic,
when he has said that this novel is fall of good things, has little more to add. Susan is very nearly as good as Mrs. Poyser, not so sententious, perhaps, but almost as humorous. ' Here is one of her reminiscences. Edward 'Banish hits Shiite* his beard to please a lady. Susan is not hopeful a 'the-result." "I knew a gentleman—he was in the army—as Couldn't please, his wife no way—she was an invalid lady that wrote poetry,.poor soul— so he cut off his moustache, and came upon her sudden. But she said it was only changing a monster she knew for a monster she didn't know." The author describes her work as a " fantasia," and it is a good description of much of the incident and of the characterisation, but Rose is a fine study, remarkably true to nature.
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