10 SEPTEMBER 1927, Page 28

COMING THE ROSE. By Eric Shepherd. (Constable. 6s. net.)—This innocent

and sentimental little book recalls the portrait of Queen Elizabeth which she insisted on having Painted without shadows. The three characters of the story are as virtuous and attractive as the author can make them, and reading of the weather in Provence, where the scene passes, is some solace for our own atrocious summer. The story is prettily written, but the reader at the end will feel as if he had just consumed several pounds of rich sweets.