23 MAY 1903, Page 20

Stay-at-Homes. By L. B. Watford. (Longmans and Co. (Is.) —Stay-at-Homes

is not a very remarkable work. The story is not as convincing, and the characters are not as interesting. as we have a right to expect from its author. Mrs. Walford's pen is too well practised for her to make an actual failure of a novel, but it must be confessed that her present book is not quite worthy of her.