Seaborne of the Bonnet Shop. By R K. Weekea. (Herbert
Jenkins. Gs.)—The main theme of this novel is the account of a young gentleman of the smart world who starts the business of a fashionable milliner. The story is cleverly written and the characters well differentiated, but the portrait of Constantine Attwood is a little conventional in its uncon- ventionality. The young and eager politician who is so impetuous, and at the same time so able, Is rather a familiar figure. Richard Seaborne himself is a much more cleverly drawn portrait, but the women are not so well realized as the men. The book, to a (Retain extent, deaerlbes the world of the shopgirl, but it is a shopgirl of very superior social standing, and, in spite of the asseverations of the author, it is hard to believe that Seaborne's shop really paid.
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