21 MARCH 1925, Page 40

Government House. By Alice Perrin. (Cassell. 7s. 6d. net.)—Government House

is hardly worthy of Mrs. Perrin's reputation. The story is on the familiar lines of the governess- heroine. It is difficult to believe in the sudden "infatuation born of a momentary meeting in the front hall of a hotel between this young lady and an elderly Anglo-Indian. The heroine becomes governess to the stepchildren of the Anglo- Indian, wbo turns out to be the Governor of an Indian province.