Laura. By Caroline Grosvenor (The Hon. Mrs. Norman Grosvenor). (W.
Heinemann. 6s.)—Mrs. Grosvenor's new novel of every-day life makes very pleasant reading, and her study of her heroine is admirably managed. Laura Cordell, is not altogether an attractive person, and her unsuccessful efforts to make the best of both worlds will not meet with much sympathy from the reader. The clever thing about the book is the presentment of a group of common-place people so carefully studied that the general effect is anything but common-place. Mrs. Grosvenor seems equally at home in the scenes which pass in a country neighbourhood and in those which are laid in London. She knows her world thoroughly under both aspects, and her London parties are described as parties really are, which is seldom the case in works of contemporary fiction.
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