11 DECEMBER 1920, Page 24

Awakening. By John Galsworthy. Illustrated by R. H. Sauter. (Heinemann.

7s. 6d. net.)—Here we have a few episodes in the life of a little boy of eight years old, vividly realized, and described with great charm. The setting is a pre-war country house, and Mr. Galsworthy has filled it with very agreeable people, whose "highest plot, to plant the berga- mot," or to enjoy the beauty of well-ordered lives, made easy by good temper and good servants. Here the little boy naturally developed a warm heart, overflowing with demonstrative love for his charming mother. The curious green flesh tints of the ol our ed frontispiece are perhaps due to the vagaries of the three-colour process, but the black-and-white illustrations, some of them attractively picked out with blue, are very pleasing.