OTHER NOVELS.—The Princess and the Perjurer. By Alan Hillgarth. (Chapman
and Dodd. 7s. 6d. net.)—This entertaining and exciting work suffers from one major mistake. The- whole story is built up on a likeness so close that the English hero cannot be detected in his impersonation of his Russian cousin. This premise once granted, however, the book is full of thrilling adventures, the scene of which ranges from post-War Constantinople to the mountains of Georgia. —The Ants of Timothy Thummel. By A. Ferenczy. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is a political satire fashioned on the model set by Swift and having ants as the dramatis personae. The ordinary reader will not know whether the entomological details hold water. He will, however, be filled with a very natural resentment when he finds an appendix of no fewer than sixty-one pages of pseudo-scientific notes, attached to a volume which he has presumably taken up for the purpose of amusement.—Quinney's Adventures. By Horace Annesley Vachell. (John Murray. 7s. 6d. net.)— Mr. and Mrs. Quinney are old friends to readers of Mr. Vachell's works, but the particular charm of their personalities has hardly been preserved in the present volume. The book consists of a series of adventures in antiquity dealing and, although the intrigues and mysteries involved are ingenious, that quality is their highest recommendation.
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