• LOVE LIES DREAMING. By C. S. Forester. (The "Bodley
head. 7s. 6d.)—Love, as personified by Constance's , husband, dreamed and wrote a diary about her. This is not to be wondered at, for Constance was a most delicious person. The diary is entrancing reading—very intimate, very delicate and most amusing. It describes the life of a young couple during part of their fifth married year, "the fifth year of 'married life that is most dangerous especially to childless :couples," but it relates more than that, for the diarist dreams . very often, so we have an account of five years' happiness and 'unhappiness and know Constance and her husband very well. We are especially grateful for a gem of a short story about the
• abandoned ladies whose pictures appear in a draper's white sale advertisement. Novels written in the form of letters or 'diaries are generally sketchy and tedious, but Mr. Forester has avoided all pitfalls and produced a really charming book.
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