Broken Threads. By Compton Reade. (Hurst and Blackett.) —George Grandison
has the privilege of being loved by two girls, both of them good, and one of them exceedingly clever and capable. He himself is a poor creature with some good instincts in him ; courage, for instance, and a sense of honour, which, how- ever, does not prevent him from making promises which he cannot keep. In the end, he gets far more than he deserves. But that, it may be said, we all do. And George Grandison is not con- spicuously unworthy of his happiness. Mr. Reade has a mean opinion of the stage. One of his heroines, after a very successful career, describes it as a "mud-bath." That she was about right is clear enough when one sees how a story has to be brutalised, so to speak, to fit it for the stage, and how every point where the process is most manifest has the greatest success.
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