Mary Foshan. By Mrs. Bollix Lowndes. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—Although
Mrs. Belloc Lowndes has an ingenious plot in her present book, there seems to be a slight danger of her over- writing. The story is rather thinner than those which she published at first, and the characters are not so well defined. The reader will take considerable interest in the group of people described in this book, and the heroine is certainly an attractive figure. Most people, however, will be sorry to see her handed over in the end to the conscientious millionaire whose fortune has been founded on a successful forgery. The author does not altogether succeed in conveying the particular attractions which she obviously intends this gentleman to possess. The most attractive figure in the book is that of old Lady Susan Baliol, who is a pleasant type of the gruff and aristocratic old lady who appears to be equally common in fiction and in real life. The book, though eminently readable, cannot be called distinguished.
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