THE INCREDIBLE YEAR. By Faith Baldwin. (Sampson, Low. 7s. 6d.)—Few
heroines off the screen have been less credible than Julie, the wealthy girl from the backwoods, of whose life and loves in New York this book treats. The authoress insists that her heroine is human and has faults, but is at great pains to present her as for ever dewy-eyed, deep-chested and embarrassingly frank. In consequence the reader grows bored, then vexed, with her, and the story falls away into meaningless make-believe. The sketches of the frivolous New York set into which Julie is thrown are adept enough, but of no particular value to the development of the tale. When Julie, in an attempt to win the affections of a dewy-eyed and deep-chested man whom she encounters, begins to bob her hair, drink cocktails and use cosmetics, one is tempted to lay down the book in exasperation.
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