Friendly Foes. By Sarah Tytler. (Digby, Long, and Co. 6s.)
—The situation out of which this story is evolved is not one to which it is easy to give a satisfactory treatment, nor does the author of Friendly Foes altogether overcome the difficulty. Henry Hales is a model of honest and faithful service; yet his conduct has an ugly look of "misprision for treason," to use a legal phrase, and of the levying of blackmail. Practically. however, the criticism of a plot does not go very far. Unless there are really manifest impossibilities, the reader is willing to accept the story, if only it be well told. And " Sarah Tytler " does tell her story well. Peter Hales and "Freddy " Markham are a capital pair of lovers ; the obstructions in the course of true love, if they are unusual, bring about an interesting suspense. At one time the knot of difficulty looks as if it were beyond untying. Alto- gether, the author's latest contribution to fiction is not unequal to her reputation.
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