NEWS AND NOTES.
Ik "The Progress of Mrs. Cripps-Middle-more." by Gerald Bcndall (John Lane, London), a very realistic picture of the rise of a modern millionaire and his family is presented to an audience which must not be too fastidious. The lady herself goes a very long way, commencing as the chapelgoing wife of a little London shopkeeper —who makes a fortune for her—and finishing as the converted countess of a Catholic peer. All the family and most of their friends have sordid adventures, hut tlto plot is cleverly worked out and the style is good.
" Wind on the Heath," by Essex Smith (John Lane, London), is one of the most readable stories of the "simple-life" school presented for a long time. This is probably due to the fact that it is melodramatic. The. "simple-life" hero is entitled to £2000 a year if he does not marry until he is 35 and a beautiful young lady forfeits an estate if she marrieshim at all. After the hero has not married a young woman whom he should have married he voluntarily abandons his fortune in order to come honest-handed to the heroine who forthwith flings the estate to the doers' Incidentally there is a little gypsy work and a great deal of very interesting animalcharming and worship.''
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14925, 24 February 1912, Page 4 (Supplement)
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