"A Pereecr Lrrriz Foou." By Maud Mallet. Messrs. Mills & Boon.
Complete ignorance must be acknowledged of the previous works of this writer, but if they are on the same standard as "A Perfect Little Fool" then a better quaintance will only be a matter of opportunity, for her latest work is one, in the words of the foxtrot, to drive the weary blues away."' It is, in three stages, the tale of a wealthy young lady who, after capturing a titled degenerate as her future partner in the joys and sorrows of this life, finds—fortunately before the marriage ceremony—that there are other things better than Coronets, and these happy things we are told about in Stage Two, The Journey. Stage One, of course, is the motive for The Journey; and, again, Stave Three is The Return. For a few delightful chapters in Stage Two. the perfect little fool has several most joyous adventures when she renounces her millions, sets forth to fight the world on twenty nounds, to find that she herself becomes a victim of life, the conqueror. In the meantime
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