The Triumph of Mrs. St. George. By Percy White. (Nash.
6s.) —Mr. Percy White is always readable, and sometimes very clever as well. The present, however, is one of the occasions on which he is only readable.—for it is difficult to feel any very special interest in the characters of the story, while the plot is not par- ticularly new or absorbing. The hero is as important a person in this book as the heroine in " Vanity Fair," and though the reader feels that he should be very much attached to him, yet somehow the gentleman is just not well enough drawn to carry off the trying position of being the only attractive person in the story. "Mrs. St. George," the adventuress heroine, is so exactly the usual type of repentant adventuresses that she is a bore, not a ci-devant siren. However, parts of the book are amusing, and that is more than can be said of many novels.
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