Watermeads. By Archibald Marshall (Stanley Paul and Co. 6s.)— It
is doubtful whether Mr. Archibald Marshall will succeed in making the Conway family into possible rivals for the Clintons, about whom ho has written so many pleasant stories. " Watermeads," however, is a delightful country house, and it is to be hoped that we shall all hear more of it, for Mr. Marshall is by no means at his best in the opening novel of a eerie& As to the chronicles of the Clinton, the last, Rank and Riches, was in some ways the most interesting ; and the first, The Squire's Daughter, though agreeable reading, was hardly on a par with its successors. If Mr. Marshall intends to give a series of stories to the inhabitants of " Watermeads," the same rule may apply. But it must be confessed that the readers who want to hear more of their adventures will request the author to remove Mrs. Conway, by demists or other disaster, from the next and all subsequent novels. To speak quite frankly, this lady is a bore.
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