The Resurrection of Cynthia Day. By Florence Morse Kingsley. (Hodder
and Stoughton. 6s.) —There is a great deal of charm in this account of what may be called the resuscitation of an old maid. Cynthia Day has, in actual years, reached the thirties at the beginning of the book, and is much older in her ways and her feelings ; but on being told by a rather unsympathetic doctor that she has only a year to live, she determines not to waste her last few months as she has already wasted the time that is past. As she is a person of a sensitive and amiable character, she finds her happiness in increasing the happiness of others, and in the end, whether because the doctor has made a mistake, or by a miraculous recovery, the mortal disease passes away. The manner in which this happens is judiciously left vague. The setting of the story is in a small town in the neighbourhood of Boston, and the New England atmosphere is very successfully realised. The book is attractive, and the reader will be sorry to turn the last page, and to say good-bye to the characters, in whom he will find that he takes, considering the quiet nature of the story, an extraordinary amount of interest.
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