Lakewood : a Story of To Day. By Mary Harriolt
Norris. (F. A. Stokes Company.)—This story of American life is full of skilful and delicate characterisation. The figures of the men are, as one might expect, less firmly drawn than those of the women. Of these Latter there is quite a gallery of finely-finished pictures. The book is a curious proof, all the more curious because it is half unconscious, of the transcendent importance of wealth in American life. All the people in the story are rich, except two. The question in which we are interested is,—How will the rich bear themselves with regard to their riches ; will they be selfish or not ? how will the poor disentangle themselves from their disabilities ? The latter problem is solved by the poor woman—she has been rich, it should be said—marrying a rich man, and the poor man a rich woman. In the answer to the other the best qualities of the writer are shown.
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