25 NOVEMBER 1911, Page 27

Mother Carey. By Kate Douglas Wiggia. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—This

is a story of the efforts made by an admirable and attractive widow to bring up her family of children. The book is a little spoilt to English eyes by the rather luscious sentimentality of many of the passages in it. This is almost as trying as the equally luscious descriptions of the succulent New England food, of which these young people consume an apparently inordinate quantity. The book is emi- nently moral, and will be attractive or nauseating to the reader exactly in accordance with his private and personal point of view.