10 OCTOBER 1925, Page 38

Oh, the Brave Music ! By Richard Blaker. (Hodder and

Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is a story of middle-class business life, and though occasionally it drags a little, it is on the whole extremely well told. The portrait of the central figure, George Tyson, late captain in the Merchant Marine, is very ably drawn, as is that of the unhappily genteel Minnie, his wife. - The reader who is fond of skipping had better have nothing to do with the book, which, as it is much concerned with details, must be patiently read from cover to cover.