Other books followed. One of these was a brilliant society novel, Her Ladyship's Income, by 'Larin Kaye," gone into a second edition. in Kaye," I find, is a name adapted from the names of an 'American litterateur, and a charming English Indy, a Miss Konstaur. This young indy is a' less experienced writer thin her American associate. Hence she deserves the greater praise. By the way, her sister is a Toston stage, and her brother is one of the popular and gifted leading lady on the
most promising civil servants in all India. He is in his early twenties, yet is on the high road to the first rank in Calcutta, and already may act as Judge on occasion. "Tam not learned in Civil Service lore but I should say Edward Konstaur, in dramatic phrasing, is a possible ''under-study" to the first post her Gracious Majesty has to offer to a Civil Service subject. The book is dangerously clever. Please read it and translate my meaning. Its interest never tings. Its English is of the cultivated school of George Meredith. Its vivacity, its humour, its sorrowful truth to 19th century society, is well sustained. Then why you ask, is it "dangerously clever?" I answer for my own part and leave you to do the same, its pessitnism, its hopeless ing, its strange' unrestfulness, hurt all truly reverent men and women. But it is a success.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.