READABLE NOVELS.—The Mystery Keepers. By Marion Fox. (John Lane. 7s.
net.)—The story of a family estate in the Eastern Counties which is saddled with a curse and the haunting!' of an Abbess. The plot is well worked out, and the necessary explanations at the end do not deprive the book of all its mysterious suggestiveness.—Mr. Lessiugham Goes Home. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s. net-.)-- A war storyin which the author is bold enough to take a German secret service agent as his hero. The moves and countermoves of the game of espionage are well worked out, but the characters are not quite sufficiently life-like to make the motives under- lying their actions credible.—Instead. By Olive Wadsley. (Cassell. 7e. net.)—An ultra-sentimental love-story in which the only really attractive figure Is Ysabel, the old nurse of the heroine. It is almost impossible to believe in the depths of folly to which the said heroine descends at the death of her grand- father, the results of which land her as a waitress in a Brazilian restaurant—Brazil being the native place of Ysabel and of her own father. There is a certain colour and movement about the book which seem to indicate that if the author would curb her inclination for mawkish sentiment her work might become very pleasant reading.—The Lualtington Mystery. By Philippa Tyler. (Heath Cranton. 6s, net.)—The story of the disappearance of a young man on his honeymoon. When the reader realizes that the date of the story is just before the war, he will rightly suspect that the Germans had something to do with the mystery.—The Forest Fire, and other Stories. ByE. Temple Thurston (Cassell. 7s. net.)—A series of sketches, most of which point a moral concerned with the war.
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