This poignant novel with its cold but meaningfull title is, generally speaking, an attack upon the economic conditions of our country. But Miss Brody, instead of launching a cut and dried treatise on the subject, brings into her book a love interest which concerns itself with two people who are caught in the struggle of money and who eventually, after numerous setbacks, find a life that holds for them true promise of happiness.

The author gives us with meticulous accuracy an account of the goings on in the bank where young Larry Yomans is employed, showing us the numerous possibilities of the unethical handling of its funds and it is therein that the book has its value.

Although Miss Brody's style is as unadorned and matter-of-fact as the people it portrays, the story has its dramatic moments, and were it not for the fact that the author employs the time-shift with only half the ability of let us say Ford Madox Ford, which sweeps us from scene to scene and backward and forward, her novel would be comfortable to read.

In this story of banks and securities it is again driven home to us how great a part money plays in the scheme of things and what the lack of it can do to ambition and to love.