The Intervening Sea. By David Lyall. (R.T.S. 3s. 6d.)— There
is something conventional in the lines on which this story is built. The figures of the drama which it presents are familiar. We recognise the aristocratic Vanstones, poor and proud, but willing to barter their social position for the money that is in- dispensable ; the hard-dealing owner of the Bartley Mills; and the homely wife who can never accommodate herself to the newly acquired splendour of her position. Nor are there wanting im- probabilities. How did Mr. Vanstone contrive to pay off the encumbrances which had crushed him into accepting a mad/jaws for his daughter ? Finally, we are not satisfied with the author's way of dealing with the two brothers, Raymond and Evan. Yet with all drawbacks this is a really powerful book. If we accept the author's positions, we shall find ourselves interested in the use that he makes of them.
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