6 DECEMBER 1902, Page 10

Faithful. By the Author of "Laddie." (Ward, Lock, and Co.

2s. 6d.)—The writer of this tale has a moral to enforce, not a commonplace moral by any means, yet not to be called far- fetched. Faithful is one of those women who have a passion for self-sacrifice, and it is our author's task to show that this passion may be productive of no little harm. The commonest form that it assumes in fiction is the giving up of a lover to some one whom he does not want to marry. This is one of the incidents of Faith- ful, but it is managed with more than common skill. Altogether, the story is scarcely up to the highest mark of the writer of "Laddie" ; this does not hinder it from being decidedly good.