25 JULY 1908, Page 23

White Rose of Weary Leaf. By Violet Hunt. (W. Heinemann.

6s.)—In her story of Amy Stoovens, a woman thrown entirely on her own resources, Miss Violet Hunt, far from avoiding the seamy side of life, takes considerable pains to display it. The heroine is well drawn ; but the reader will remain quite unconvinced that such a woman would have become the mistress of Jerome Daud, even after the supposed death of his wife. The whole situation involved in her relations with the Daud family is extraordinarily unpleasant, and the book, though distinctly clever as a study of character, is squalidly dreary, and makes very depressing reading.