The Thorn Bush near the Door. By Sophie Cole. (Mills
and Boon. 6s.)—This book is mainly an interesting description of everyday life in London, though in one episode it plunges into tremendous drama. Although the drama is well done the reader—too familiar with sensational fiction—will be more attracted by the accounts of the heroine's suburban existence whilst she is a girl and of the slightly Bohemian and picnic-like life which she leads after her marriage to Rupert Warrender, the young artist. The author writes with considerable humour, and her portraits are all vivid and well realized. Rosamond, the heroine, seems to have only a small prospect of happiness at the end of the book, and it is no small feat on the part of the author to have made Rupert engaging in spite of the weakness of his character.
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