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THE DEMON LOVER. By Dion Fortune. (Noel Douglas. 7s. 6d.)—This

novel is a fantastic allegory on the theme that love is the one redeeming force of the world. Justin Lucas is a member of a secret fraternity that seeks to achieve social and international reforms by occult methods. He betrays the brotherhood, using his secretary, Veronica Mainwaring, as his medium or victim. But his disloyalty recoils upon himself. He becomes dead in body and a vampire in spirit— until he grows to love Veronica, and is called back by her to life and sanity. The story is clever in conception and admirably written, and the eerie atmosphere is well maintained.