17 OCTOBER 1903, Page 24

From a Davos Balcony. By A. McLaren. (Duckworth and Co.

6s.)—Miss (or Mrs.) McLaren has chosen the tiresome form of a series of letters in which to tell her story. The feeling of the exhilaration produced by the cold of the high Alps in winter is well given, but the chronicles of life in a winter hotel are rather small beer. However, a novel in which the scene is laid in the place to which one is going is always interesting reading, and this story can, therefore, be recommended to people ordered to Davos.