19 APRIL 1913, Page 23

Th.e Night .Nurse. By the author of "The ,Surgeon's Log."

(Chapmists and Hall. 6s,)--The. scene of this story is laid in an bospital and is much concerned with the sentimental relations between the resident staff and the nurses. These apparently are always complicated and extensive, and are given a disagreeable flavour of surreptitiousness by the disapproval with which they are necessarily viewed by the hospital authorities. Anything so bad for the patients as such a state of things cannot be imagined, and it is to be hoped that the author, for the pur- poses of fiction, exaggerates the frequency of these episodes. The misunderstanding between the hero and the heroine is a little weak, but the description of the typhus epidemic at the end is powerfully written.