The Cradle of a Poet. By Elizabeth Godfrey. (John Lane.
6s.) —Miss Godfrey as usual shows her best inspiration in descriptions of the scenery in the West of England. The scene of the greater part of her new novel is laid at a little town called Stonedge, in the isle of Purbeck, and, as befits the name, stone quarries figure considerably in the lives of the characters. Noel Harmon, poet and quarryman, is well drawn, and the whole of the early part of the story is very much better done than the later chapters, in which the heroine performs poetic dances at a music-hall. The reader, in fact, will find Theresa, the said heroine, rather difficult to believe in, and the charm which it is plain that the author wishes should attach to her is not quite realised. However, the whole story is pleasing, and Miss Godfrey's "seascapes" are executed with great realism.
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