Nellie Maturin's Victory. By Adeline Sergeant. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—When
the "pen of the writer" has been laid aside for ever, it becomes the reviewer to remember only pleasant hours which have been, spent in the company of the author who has passed away. It can be said with truth that no one has ever been the worse for reading any work of Miss Sergeant's, and many more ambitious story-tellers might, one would think., be thankful if they could be certain that this special praise would at the end of their lives be accorded to them. Nellie Maturin's Victory is in Miss Sergeant's usual and well-known style, and the plot is rather better managed than is sometimes the case with her work. Miss Sergeant at her best successfully depicted life in ordinary English home circles, and it is at her best that we may claim the right to remember her.
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