MAKESHIFT. By Dot Allen. (Melrose. 7s.
Allen has written a quiet and sympathetic study of a young Scotswoman, doomed to the disillusionment that awaits the over-sensitive temperament. Jacqueline Thayer is the daughter of a dressmaker in a little Lanarkshire town. Losing her parents, she lives with an aunt and uncle, who keep her until she is able to fend for herself as a typist in Glasgow. Innocent for her years, and fired with dreams of becoming a poet, she in roughly initiated into the -realities of life by her
employer and a novelist whose work is given her to type. There follows a genuine love-affair, suddenly ended by her fiance's death-and then, makeshift ! k•-The- story is the more poignant for its . restraint. Miss. Allen writes with dignity ; but we should have welcomed 'a little more humorous relief.
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