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OTHER NOVELS

Treading the Winepress. By Ralph Connor. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—To a retired naval, officer and his son settled in Nova Scotia there come accidental visitors in a yachting party from the States, to a girl member of which the son becomes engaged. But the War breaks out, and the marriage, many times delayed, never takes place. At the end of the War, belieVing her lover dead, the girl marries a derelict countryman of her own. The story is mainly con- cerned with the effect of the War upon a small group of people, and is quite good of the kind which the stricter Victorian family considered suitable for Sunday reading.