LIGHT FICTION.
GREEN BUTTERFLIES. By Roy Bridges. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) Tasmania when It was called Van Diemen's Land is the scene of this very striking novel. The story begins in the Penal Settlement days and ends in the present thou. We follow the fortunes of one family for three or four generations. Two elements, one of religious fanaticism and one of passionate sensuality, run in the blood of the heroes and heroines and produce recurrent catastrophe.
VINE LEAVES. By Lenore Van Der Beer. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) In most detective stories the love element is subordinate, but in this it pre- dominates and may be described as very sentimental and rather pretty. The remaining part of the tale, though it comprises murder and elopement, is slight and silly.
A DAUGHTER OF THE STARS. By Alexander Macfarlan. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) A novel about some incredibly superstitions people in Spain. The psychological analysis of their delusions, plentifully spiced as it is with bitter religious scepticism, falls to interest the reader, because the deluded persons do not live.
THE CLEVEDON CASE. By Nancy and John Oakley. (Herbert Jenkins. 7s. 6d.) As the plot thickens the interest thins.
THE WHELPS OF THE WHITE WOLF. By George Marsh. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.) Fighting in the Far North— as continuous and pointless as that of a Punch and Judy Show.
THE FORTUNE HUNTERS. By C. N. and A. M. Williamson. (Mills and Boon. 7s. 6d.) Short stories, typical of C. N. and A. 31. Williamson. Pleasant to read, easy to forget.
THE FALSE DAWN. By Norma Lorimer. (Hutchinson. 78. 6d.) ocmnsibly about " war, religion, and sex," really about the last only.
THE PURPLE PEARL. By Anthony Pryde and R. K. Weekes. (George Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.) Threadbare adventures in Germany and good love-making in England.
THE MAN WHo DARED. By May Edginton. (Hodder and. Stoughton. 7s. 6d.) A woman believes that her husband will be reincarnated; a scoundrel pretends to have been the husband. The woman forgives.
IN THE DAYS OF POOR RICHARD. By Irving Bachellor. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) A partly historic story of the American War of Independence—Interesting both as fact and fiction.
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