22 JULY 1911, Page 24

The School of Love. By Priscilla Craven. (T. Werner Laurie.

6s.)—The situation round which the latter part of this novel is built is thoroughly conventional, not to say melodramatic. We have read thousands of times of brides who receive anonymous letters when they go to change their gowns after their weddings. But, in spite of this defect, the novel is extremely readable, and describes cleverly the incidents of an Anglo-American marriage. Verity, the heroine, is an attractive little person, though her husband is rather like the lay figure who is supposed to stand as the feminine novelist's idea of a hero.