13 JUNE 1925, Page 25

Watling's for Worth. By Horace Annesley Vachell. (Hodder and Stoughton.

7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Vachell succeeds in interesting the reader in his book whenever he deals with the commercial methods of Watling's, an enormous modern store, instead of with the private affairs of Mr. Watling and his daughter and the young man with whom she has fallen in love. Business fiction is generally interesting, but the author has not quite succeeded in mastering the technicalities of his subject.