18 NOVEMBER 1922, Page 22

THE RIGOUR OF THE GAME. By Christopher Stone. (Martin Seeker.

7s. 6d. net.)—The elusive personality of Mr. Stone's heroine is the most intriguing feature of his new book. She is the least convincing, but, paradoxically, the most natural, of his puppets. Though the " game " is played, as the title denotes, under the aegis of Mrs. Battle, the reader will probably incline to the opinion that that good lady herself would hardly have been a willing patron of such sport. There is altogether too much revoking in the book to have been agreeable to her.