THE EXILE. By Mary Johnston. (Thornton Butter- worth. 7s. 6d.)—The
action of Miss Johnston's mystical novel takes place some decades hence in the imaginary island of Eldorado, a part of the British Empire. The interest does not lie in the revolutions and wars, which are waged—as in a Greek tragedy—behind the scenes, but in the psychology of the characters. Richard Kaye, a political exile, becomes more and more convinced that he has lived on the island in a former life, and that then, as now, his fate was bound up in that of two women—Naomi Thorne and Julia Carlisle. The book is full of premonitiona,and visions, and the doctrine of reincar- nation is interestingly though not very convincingly set out. The book is a refreshing change from current fiction. The physical background of sea and sky is charmingly drawn and full of poetic feeling.
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