Mr. Elliott. By I. 0. Ford. (Edward Arnold. 6s.)—This is
an interesting and well-written book, dealing chiefly with the inevitable sadness of life, the misery that comes alike to rich and poor. Mr. Elliott passed through all the stages from factory hand to wealthy manufacturer, crushing all those whose lack of a proper business point of view interfered with his progress When the story opens he has just established himself with his wife and grown-up son and daughter in a smart new villa. Mrs. Elliott is ill and lonely in her fine house, and her old factory friends come and see her, and are brought into contact with Mrs. Fairfield, the wife of a neighbouring squire, who also takes pity on her. As is often the ease in real life, the working people of whatever class have sympathy and many things in common, and the understanding between Mrs. Fairfield and one or two of the factory women, and the gulf between her and the Elliotts, is well drawn.
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