"Me and My True Love." By H. A. Mitchell Keays.
(J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol. 6s.)—This is a very American story in which the peculiar conditions of American divorce supply the material for the plot. The motive of the story is the bringing together of a divorced husband and wife by the love affairs of their daughter. The girl is in love with a young man of her own world, a very secluded and out-of-the-way world, and her father, remembering that she is her mother's daughter as well as his own, thinks that she should sea more of life before irrevocably committing herself. He therefore writes to his former wife, who is now a widow after a second marriage, and asks her to take the girl out and show her the social world. The story which follows is well told, and the remarriage of the father and mother at the end of the book is quite convincing. Mrs. Warder, the mother, is the sort of woman who is more met with in American novels than in English, her extraordinary and rather hard brilliancy being apparently more often found on the other side of the Atlantic. In spite of the plot being based on a rather unpleasant subject, the book is pleasingly written, and the pictures of American life will be interesting to English readers.
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