Black Swans. By M. L. Skinner. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.
net.)—Miss Skinner proves in this book that. her share of The Boy in the Bush, which she wrote in collaboration with Mr. D. H. Lawrence, was no negligible one. Black Swans proves her to be a literary artist of some merit and to possess the power of conveying to her readers the sunshine and the wide spaces of Western Australia at the beginning of its settlement. She is less successful when the scene of the book passes to London, and the heroine after her nominal marriage is altogether too capricious to be credible. Anyone interested in the beginnings of Australian settlement cannot do better than get this book, which, it must be understood, besides painting an unforgettable picture of new life overseas, is an interesting production from the purely literary point of view.
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