_The Girl in Fancy Dress_ (HODDER AND STOUGHTON) was so very much disguised in one way and another that _Anthony_, the hero, when he asked her to marry him, even for the second time, was taking considerable risks. The speed of the affair must also have been bewildering. _Cynthia_, the heiress, arrives on a Thursday to stay with his people, but, having tumbled out of a motor-car into a wet ditch on her way, she is dressed, rather like a stage coster-girl, in garments borrowed from a cottager. Naturally, as of course a nursery-governess is much more likely than an heiress to look like that, _Anthony's_ people mistake her for a poor country cousin who is also expected, and _Cynthia_, discovering that her host and hostess and their dreary daughters intend the heiress to marry _Anthony_ and, worse than that, that he has called her "the goose with the golden eggs," fosters the mistake and does her best to pay them all out. She leaves on the following Tuesday, but before that _Anthony_ has taken her to one dance as a peasant girl and she has talked to him at another disguised as a green domino, and he has proposed to her as his cousin and withdrawn his declaration when he finds she isn't. Next he sees her as _Lady Teazle_ in amateur theatricals, and then comes his final meeting with her in her proper person, which brings about a satisfactory ending for everyone but _Cynthia's_ other lover. I don't say that all these things couldn't have happened; I only say that as a rule they don't. Apart from that, the bright bustling action of Mrs. J. E. BUCKROSE'S story has a cheerful charm of its own, and _Cynthia_, as poor relation of one of the anxiously best families in a little country town, provides some amusing situations--for the reader. * * * * *