Catherine Sterling. By Norma Lorimer. (W. Heinemann. (Is.)— The author
seems inclined to change her mind in the middle of the book about the characters of the three principal personages of this story. Catherine Sterling, the heroine, contracts an irregular marriage in the first chapters with a man whose real wife is a hopeless lunatic. But this is merely a prelude to the story proper, in which the scene changes from Japan, where this irregular alliance is entered into, to London in the season. Catherine's views as to her two suitors—a prig and a common- place but amorous young man—certainly change so greatly as to indicate an actual alteration of character. The prig, too, turns out to be much less nice than is promised at his first appear- ance; while the amorous " stick-and-a-pipe young man" im- proves steadily, and ends by proving himself to be quite a different person. The book, though not remarkable, possesses the quality of being readable.
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