16 JANUARY 1915, Page 24

READABLE NOVELS.—The Second Pollyooly Book. By Edgar Jepson. (Hutchinson and

Co. 6s.)—A farther series of loosely connected episodes concerning the delightful Pollyooly.—The Voice on the Beach. By C. L. Ryley. (David Nutt. Is. net.)—These ghost stories are circumstantial enough, but too independent of the forces and limits of Nature to be really thrilling.