27 JANUARY 1912, Page 38

Enter Bridget. By Thomas Cobb. (Mills and Boon, tle.)—Ma Cobb

gives one of his slight and cleverly drawn sketches of con- temporary life in his new novel, Enter Bridget, but he has not quite made up hie mind whether his heroine is an adventuress or not. Perhaps, however, he means to imply that poverty made her an adventuress, and that she would have been as virtuous, had she inherited 45,000 a year, as Becky Sharp affected to believe that she herself would have been. The picture of the irascible and amorous Colonel Faversham is too exact in its realism to be pleasing, and, indeed, all the portraits are sketched with the author's usual incisive touch and also with his usual cynicism. The book is very slight but very nearly brilliant.