13 FEBRUARY 1932, Page 26

THE PAVILION OF HONOUR. By George Preedy. (Bodley Head. 7s.

6d.)—Mr. Preedy adorns Monseigneur le Comte de Bonneval with all the-physical and mental colours.of the dge dare of Louis XIV—XV. Bonneval's honour is . extremely sensitive and causes him to fight-brilliantly of .courser—in all corners of Europe on different sides, and to forgo his gains where a man with a more modern sense of --honour might-enjoy them. Naturally such a man- carries plenty of love interest, and Mr. Preedy presents_iffifl. as a pageant, using the story as an excuse for display both of . character and incident, in the Cochran manner.