COLLABORATION IX HYSTERIA.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14889, 31 January 1914, Page 9

COLLABORATION IX HYSTERIA.

Angela -littord was beautiful and saintly. Sho devoted her life to philanthropic work in London, her chief interest being the welfare of shop-girls. Now and then sho ran down to a cottago in Cornwall for a rest, and thero she had met Geoffrey Vance, whose wife had been a bed-ridden cripplo all their married life. Angela's secretary ! in her shop-girl activities, a seemingly pious young man, turned out to bo a villain, having wronged a shop-girl named Poppy Stone. This man pursued Angela to her retreat, proposed, and when rejected, used a compromising situation in which she and Vance wero involved, to blackmail her. .He went to her cottage at -night, and a scene reminiscent of a painful one in "The Sign of the Cross." ended in the death of the man by violence. All comes right in the end, but beforo that happens the reader has to get through much that is harrowing. Tho book gives the impression of having been written during a week-end. It has many of the old "cliches," and savours strongly of the "Family Herald." Some of the scones are long bouts of hysteria. There are people, however, who like strong meat of this kind, and doubtless they will enioy the trials and tribulations of Angela and Poppy (God's Clay," by Alice and Claude Askew. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 2s 6d.)