1 OCTOBER 1904, Page 35

The Light of the Star. By Tramlin Garland. (Harper and

Brothers. 6s.)—The opening of this novel is interesting reading to those who like stories of a serious nature about actresses and play- writers. Up to the production of George Douglass's first play, " Lilian's Duty," the story is quite convincing; but when, on the ill-success of that, Douglass writes three more long plays in the course of this one short book, the author fails as completely to carry his audience with him as did the author of the play. As a

picture of a certain phase of life in New York the book has a claim on the attention of English people who want to know more about the doings of their American cousins, but viewed simply as a novel it is not successful.