Comrade Yetta. By Albert Edwards. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—The chief
feeling of the English reader of this book will be one of extreme astonishment at the calm way in which the author writes of New York as a cosmopolitan city, as if this were an established and acknowledged fact. The book is written with a strong Socialistic bias and is very interesting in its sidelights on the labour problem in America. According to the author, the employers make most unfair use of the differences of language between their workers, and aim at assembling as cosmopolitan a staff as possible so as to throw difficulties in the way of any concerted action between them. Yetta herself is a well-drawn and sympathetic figure, but we find it hard to enter into the subtle reasons for the breaking-off of her first engagement or quite to understand her happiness when she is married to an exceedingly unattractive gentleman called Isadore Braun.
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