The House in Marylebone. By Mrs. W. K. Clifford. (Duckworth
and Co. 2e. 8d. not.)—The first ten chapters of Mrs. Clifford's new book have no little to do with the rest of the novel that they might. quite well have been published as a separate short story. Geraldine Lawton, the heroine of this first study, makes no further appear. sine except as an entirely subsidiary character ; and the account of the Girls' Lodging House in Marylebono, in which a little com- munity of workers live, is complete without her, for Geraldine was never a tenant of No. 10 Wedderburn Place. The remaining fifty-five chapters contained in the volume are a eeries of studies of various working girls, who believe themselves to be modern young ladies making careers, but who end almost as inevitably in marriage as if they had been born in the year 1850. As a proof that human nature is always the same, combined- with the study of the consequences arising from the surplus population of women, The House in Marylebone is interesting reading.
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