12 JUNE 1915, Page 23

Allen and Unwin. 68.)—A consideration, under the guise of fiction,

of the modern position of women; it is coloured with a superficial optimism.—Beating Back. By Al Jennings and Will Irwin. (D. Appleton and Co. 6s.)—How Mr. Jennings lived as an outlaw in the Wild West, served his term in an Ohio prison, came back, and "made good" in his own State, is a capital story full of thrills.