5 MARCH 1904, Page 22

A Change of Face. By Thomas Cobb. (Methuen and Co.

6s.) —A lucky attack of facial paralysis saves Mr. Cobb's heroine from marriage with a very selfish, though handsome, young gentleman, who is obviously of opinion that his wife's face ought to be her fortune. The book is rather less slight than Mr. Cobb's work has been lately, and the characters have some pretence to elaboration. Still, it is impossible to feel that Mr. Cobb is even yet doing full justice to his talents, or attaining to the standard which he set himself in his earlier works.