A Green Grass-Widow, and other Stories. By Jane H. Find-
later. (John Murray. '711. 6d. net.)—Echoes of the Great War still haunt the minds of the makers of books all the world over. It is well that this should be so. And when they come to us in the original and graphic guise of these four stories it is even better. In A Green Grass- Widow Miss Findlater describes the - impact of the war as it affected the nomadic tinker folk—half Romany, half pure-bred Scot—who still frequent the Highlands of Scotland. With sympathetic insight and no little humour she interprets, as always, pre-eminently the woman's point of view. This is true of all the first three stories. In the last, "Compulsory Rations," it is the twelve-year-old Sandy who plays the hero and whose unconscious tragedy it was that for him the glory of battle was consummated in the failure of one soldier of the King to return from France.
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