How to Choose a Husband. By Rosalie Neish. (C. Arthur
Pearson. 6s.)—This is a volume of short stories, or rather, sketches, some of which have already appeared in the Pal/ Mall Gazette and the Westminster Gazette. They are decidedly amusing, and by no means so vulgar as the title would lead the reader to imagine. To be fully appreciated they should be read by some one who is very young, is in very high spirits, and wants to fill up half an hour. Given these conditions, they cannot fail to please. In the depiction of Celia, the heroine of several chapters, the writer shows a genuine sense of humour. How Celia sees the Coronation procession from the wrong club, and how she goes to the "summer sales" intent upon buying a mackintosh and comes back with a pearl muff-chain, are both pieces of very tolerable farce.
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