FAIR WEATHER COMETH. By May Stanley. (Parsons. 7s. 6d. net.)
This is a Canadian story with a feminist bias. It is written in a pleasant, interesting way, and should fmd an enthusiastic public. The best thing in the book is the author's happy gift for depicting cosy interiors—the little homes of young newly-married kilk. The worst thing in the book is the mismanagement of the plot, and especially in regard to the use made of the War. If the War is to be used at all in fiction it must surely be either the main theme or the tragic denouement, and not, as here, a mere subsidiary part of the plot. When it looms, one thinks that the vexed question whether the wife shall write or merely minister to her lord is to be at last decided. And one is glad, because one is tired of it, and there is a hope that if they will settle it one way or another" (the reader will probably incline tc the negative) the author may talk delightfully again about interiors. Alas I Even a world war cannot settle it, and the author is in such despair that she has to contrive a most uncalled-for railway accident.
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