12 AUGUST 1893, Page 26

For Mrs. Grundy's Sake. By M. Isidore Douglas. (Digby, Long,

and Co.)—The plot of this story is somewhat commonplace, and there is rather too much ado about remarkably little. There is something very like a Scotch marriage in it, which, along with various other complications, loads to a protracted misunderstand- ing between Lord Follamar and his wife—who, from first to last, are hero and heroine—that is terminated only by their overhear- ing a conversation between another and happier couple. The post- nuptial lover of Maud Follamar is rather too objectionable and violent a person to be true to life, and her vindictive rival is also too much of a caricature. The light " society " comedy which acts as a foil to the all but fatal misunderstandings of the story, is, however, more than fairly well done.