11 AUGUST 1928, Page 23

HER KNIGHT COMES RIDING. By John V. A. Weaver. (Knopf.

'7's. 6d.)—Alternately realistic and sentimental, and pervaded by characteristically broad American humour, this novel follows the development of a girl who, born into a lower middle-class suburb of modern New York, inherits from her father a passion for mediaeval romance. The father himself is her childhood's notion of the true knight, and, when he dies, her adolescent affections demand an elderly lover. Two very different men of mature years— a breezy, picturesque sailor, and a cad of an employer— successively disillusion her, and prepare her for marriage with an ordinary youth. The story is readable, but lacks distinction.