HIS CHILDREN'S CHILDREN. By Arthur Train. (Nash and Grayson. 78.
6d. net.) This very striking American novel deals with post-War New York and gives a rather appalling account of its social conditions. Certainly, if American fiction is to be believed, Prohibition has added a sinister factor to the already compli- cated social conditions which are the legacy of the Great War. Not only do the characters in this novel live before our eyes, but the book is well constructed, and the reader sees ruin and disaster approach nearei and nearer the principal characters with the relentlessness of the Greek Ate. It must be con- fessed, however, that the author has not quite sufficient command of his technique to give the necessary tragic weight to the final scene which he obviously intends to be intensely dramatic. If, as appears from the title-page, this is Mr. Arthur Train's first novel, much further good work may be expected of him.
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