READABLE Novara.-,–The Woman of the Picture. By G. F. Turner.
(Hodder and. Stoughton. 7e. 6d. net.)-4 story of South-Eastern Europe concerned with the ownership of a castle in the mountains of the kingdom of "Grimland." A local legend concerning heroic figures of the Middle Ages lends colour to a suggestien 0 the re-inciuuation of the principal characters.— The Waters of Strife. By George Vane. (John Lane. 7e, net.) —A War story, the scene of which is laid first in pre-war English country and later in Belgium in 1915. The German intriguers of the first part of the book are rather too obviously labelled " spies."—The Fog and the Fan. By Margaret Westrup. (Hurst and Blackett. 3s. 6d. net.)—A study of the temperament of a serious business girl with nerves and her irresponsible mother and gaily inconstant lover. There is little prospect of happiness for Anne, the unfortunate heroine, in the companion- ship of either of these people, and the breaking of her engagement at the end seems only the choice of the lesser of two evils.
The Beauty Killer. By Brandon Fleming. (F. V. White and Go., Ltd. Is. net.)—A melodramatic story in which a murder is committed in the fourth chapter, and the rest of the book is occupied in finding the criminal. In spite of a rather common- place setting the plot is so ingeniously developed that the reader will not discover the mystery till the end of the book.
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