READABLE Nover.s.—Father O'Flynn. By H. De Vere Staepoole. (Hutchinson and
Co. Is. net.)—Mr. Stacpoole's romance is amusing, and here and there exciting, without any strict regard for the laws of probability.—A Daughter of Debate. By Mrs. Ambrose Harding. (T. Werner Laurie. 6s.)—A rather sentimental story of the West Indies, chiefly concerned with the question of racial intermarriage, a subject which is not well adapted to light fiction—Kitty Bell the Orphan. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Ellis H. Chadwick, in her introduction, upholds the view that Kitty Berl is an earlier version of .Tane Eyre and the work of Charlotte Bronte. Apart from its historical interest, the story is scarcely worthy of reproduction—Kicks and Ha'pene.e. By Henry Stace. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—In this comedy of a clerk, a servant, a policeman, and others a humour which is almost farcical is blended with bitter satire. The conventional "happy ending" is a little out of tune.
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