His Choice—and Hers. By Evelyn Everett-Green and H. Louisa Bedford.
(S.P.C.K.) —This book, which the joint authors describe as an "episode," is written in a now somewhat too familiar strain of melancholy. The hero is Cyril Benson, who is a very muscular Christian preacher and "crusader" against vice and misery, and the heroine is Sylvia O'Connor, a sprightly Irish girl. The two, of course, fall in love after misunderstanding and mis- interpreting each other for the usual length of time ; but re- ligions and other obstacles prevent their marrying. At all events, Sylvia refuses Cyril, mainly, however, because she does not know her own mind and heart, and he dies of a broken heart. The book closes with something more than a hint that Sylvia will marry her faithful Jem in the long-run, and that the Cyril affair is but an " episode " in their lives. Although the story contains a trifle too much of the " crusading " of Cyril and his brotherhood, it is more than passably written. This is all the more to the credit of the authors, because they have given it in the rather perilous form of extracts from letters and journals. Sylvia and Jem have the appearance of being drawn from the life.
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