Thanks to Sanderson. By W. Pett Ridge. (Methuen and Co.
Cs.) —We are not exactly ready to say why we go on reading Mr. Pett Ridge's stories. They are about quite commonplace people who live in mean surroundings and are not by any means too good for them. Yet we do go on, and that with as little skipping as may be. It is as if one walked through a Clerkenwell or Pentonville street and found it so interesting that there was no inclination to hurry. One thing is clear, that Mr. Pett Ridge is a master in his own line of art. One criticism we venture to make. The style is distinctly photographic, and a photograph is bound to be exact. Why, then, are we told that when Winnie -Sanderson was married she was "composed, and wrote her new name dearly ? Surely Mr. Pett Ridge knows that a bride signs for the last time her old name.
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