TOWN AND COUNTRY.
Town life and country life are shown in vivid contrast in Mrs. Maitland Davidson's new novel, "Town Mice" (Duckworth). The author obviously prefers the latter and suggests that contentment lies there only. The wife of a hard-working young countiy doctor unexpectedly and undeservedly inherits a considerable fortune and immediately transportsJiim and her younger brother and sister to London in search of a good time. Anxious to make friends quickly they allow themselves to be taken up by the first people they come across, and these, not unnaturally, are a set of amusing and thoroughly unscrupulous "gold diggers." Parts of the story seem natural and others frankly improbable, and not all of it is pleasant reading. The more healthy and cheerful aspects of country life are contrasted with the more purposeless and dissipated tide of existence in the city. Surely there is another aide to both of these pictures. •
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 181, 1 August 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)
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