11 JULY 1925, Page 46

OTHER NOVELS

The Ex-Gentleman. By Thirza Nash. (Jerrold. 7s. 6d. net.)—This South African novel will give English readers considerable insight into the ways of those strange nomadic people, the Trek Boers. The hard fate which throws a girl born of cultured British parents into the guardianship of these very rough people is not lightened until far on in the book, and the reader will have a certain doubt whether the inherited instincts of culture would not have been overlaid by so many years of primitive environment. The book is ably put together, and the heroine, Isabeau, is an attractive figure.