What One Woman Thinks. Essays by Haryot Holt Cahoon. Edited
by Cynthia W. Westover. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—We have no particular fault to find with the essays. We do not find in them the result which might have been expected from the united labours of an author and an editor. They are very "snippety," seventy-four being contained in 269 pages, or a little more than three pages and a half to an essay. They look like the contribu- tions which fill an occasional column in a family newspaper, and tend to edification rather than entertainment. Still, Mrs. Cahoon writes with good sense and good feeling. But she has missed at least one opportunity. We turned eagerly to an essay bearing the title of "Dusting the Books." It turned out, to our great disappointment, to contain some commonplace reflections on the change of fashion in books. If only Mrs. Cahoon had vigorously denounced the destructive practice to which her sex are addicted of dusting books, this notice would possibly have been far more favourable than we have felt inclined to make it. As it is, we are afraid that she is no better than hor sisters. In fact, she convicts herself of the crime.
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