19 MARCH 1927, Page 47

LEADON HILL. By Ric:lin:al Crompton. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—Miss

Crompton's plot,' which is slight, turns upon the advent into Leadon Hill society of Helen West, an artist's daughter who has been educated in Italy and has posed as model to several painters. Parochial respecta- bility is ruffled ; scandal is set afoot ; and finally, by the ns.piracy of Leadon Hill opinion, the innocent Helen is "shed back to Italy, leaving behind her the local bank lerk to whom she had become engaged. The story is un- eventful, but as a quiet representation of life in an English -Wage of the gardensubtirb type it is decidedly good.