READABLE NOVELS. —The Adventurous Lady. By J. C. Snaith. (Collins.
Os. net.)—The heroine, an imperious young lady, the daughter of a marquis, thinks fit to change places in a fit of petulance with a nursery governess whom she encounters in the train. The adventures of the two girls during this meta- morphosis are amusingly recounted.—The Love Chit. By Maud Mallet. (Mills and Boon. 7s. 6d. net )—Relating how a daring young lady advertises for a capitalist who will provide her with funds in order to organize a campaign to marry a millionaire. She ends by marrying the capitalist. —Fire and Water. By Marwin Delcarol. (Duck-worth. 9s. net.)—A story in which both the hero and the heroine have glimpses of countless lives in which they have met during previous incarnations. The vignettes of ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, &o., are vividly drawn, but the whole thing is necessarily reminiscent of Mr. Kipling. Indeed, the characters in the novel acknowledge as much.—The Crimson Tide. By Robert W. Chambers. (Appleton. 8s. 6d. net.)—After a horrifying preface concerning the murder of the Tsar's family in Russia, the story goes to New York and the organization of Bolshevik propaganda there. The author is a firm believer in a world-wide Bolshevik plot, and his book seems frankly intended as propaganda.
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