In Our Town. By Rosaline Masson. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—"
Our Town" is Edinburgh, and at first it seems as if its characteristics and peculiar charm were to hold the first place in the story. But as we read the human interest develops, and " Our Town" becomes a background, though not one to be neglected, for the beautiful characters of Christopher Fairbairn, Pansy, and Gavin Seton. In Mr. Fairbairn, " Saint Andrew," as he is sometimes called, Miss Illassoa has given us a sym- pathetically drawn picture of old age,—at first in comparative happiness, eagerly recalling the traditions and memories of his beloved Edinburgh, sharing them and living them over again with Pansy, his son's English wife, and his friend Seton, and then in the sorrow and weakness brought on him by his son's worth- lessness. Though there is great sadness in the lives of these people, there is also great love, and " duty loved of love," making a book of more than passing interest.
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