1 SEPTEMBER 1928, Page 22

THE HASTY MARRIAGE. By Grant Richards. (Cape. 7s. 6d.)—Terence Starrett

is the son of the proprietor of an Oxford Street store. Just down from Oxford, he visits a ' Mediterranean resort, where he selects from among the bathing beauties an American girl, who, he thinks, on eugenic grounds, would make a good wife. He persuades her into a . hasty marriage ; but she immediately deserts him and his incensed father stops his allowance. It is not until the girl's father arrives from America, and, learning that Starrett senior is about to be raised to the Peerage, offers to settle a million pounds on Terence if he is allowed to marry his daughter, that all ends happily. The story is farcical, and there is a pert vigour about Mr. Richards' cynicism, but there is a good deal of mere facetiousness too.