wees o" THR Tames"—By A. de Were "Stacpoole. London. Cass Price, 7s.
In Mi, de Vere Stacpoole's now novel a boy of, seventeen, heir to a fortune and jarge estates, runs away with a nursemaid whom he meets in Hyde Park, and after he has married her his family find, to their relief, that she comes of the same class as he does, and has a long-lost millionaire father in South The plot is the plot of a penny novelette, but Mr. Stacpoole tells story so well that the reader soon settles dows to enjoy himself without stopping to think whether the situations are possible or not. The boy Pat, who has been brought up in complete seclusion on his own estate: in the country, with no one to look after him but an absent-inded old tutor, is a very attrac-ive person, drawn with freshness and an entire lack of sentiments ity, and makes one feel that no story with him as the central figure could be impossible.
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