Lady Maude's Mania

There is not much to be said for the high life of Mr. Manville Fenn's "tragedy". The word "tragedy", indeed, is to be taken in a non-natural sense, for "Lady Maude's Mania" is sheer comedy throughout, and in clever hands might be shaped into a passable farce for the stage. Lady Maude's "mania" is a devotion to organ-grinders, and as one of them turns out to be a love's messenger, the sensible reader will not expect her to end her days in a lunatic asylum.