In State Pupiflari. (Swan Sonnensohein and Co. 8s.)—This is a
novel entirely concerned with the doings of a Ladies' College in which the heroine finds herself. The author has thought it beat to use what she calls "fictitious place-names," but the local colour makes it obvious which of the Ladies' Colleges is meant to be portrayed. The story is clever but rather trivial. It would require more talent than the author possesses to make the little doings and feelings of the young ladies of the College interesting through a whole volume. On the other hand, the anther is successful in giving a delightfully naive tone of infalli- bility to the opinions of the undergraduates, male and female, of the book. " We are the world," says one of them, "the present world. What the people from eighteen to twenty-five are thinking and feeling is what counts." The author seems to be as much convinced of this fact as the characters, and the consequence is that people who have passed the fatal point of middle age, fixed by these young persons at about thirty, are, in spite of inward protests, made to feel even older than that.
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