14 FEBRUARY 1925, Page 28

The Next Corner. By Dudley Carew. (John Lane. 7s. 6d.

net.)—Is concerned with the inconveniences which arise when father and son fall in love with the same woman. The story contains a series of those irritating events of which most people have so many in their own lives that they will not wish for more in fiction. The level of tragedy • with its purging of emotion is never reached, or even attempted.