10 JULY 1909, Page 29

READABLE NovaLs.--The Actress. By Louise Closser Hale. (A. Constable and

Co. (ls.)-1 story told in the first person by the heroine, who is an American. She is an ingenuous and attractive young lady, and though her struggle between her art and her love is not original, it is brightly told.—Ashes of Passion. By Mrs. Coulson Kernahan. (John Long. 6s.)—A rather morbid modern novel with an absolutely heartless heroine. —Peter-Peter. By Maude Radford Warren. (Harper and Brothers. 5s.)—This is a perfectly impossible American story so charmingly told that the reader will swallow all that is preposterous and thoroughly enjoy the book.