22 NOVEMBER 1924, Page 28

The Scrap Heap. By Geraldine Waife. (Chapman and Hall. 7s.

ad. net.)—The Unlit Lamp. By Radclyffe Hall. (Cassell. 7s. 6d. net.)—Both The Scrap Heap and The Unlit Lamp present pictures concerned with the actions and reactions of women on each other. In both books the fatin r of the family described is for different reasons anything but an attractive figure, and the centre of interest is one of ti e daughters. The reader's reflections on these works will probably be that a world composed of one sex only would be a mist unpleasant and unwholesome place, and that profouni wisdom lies in the words " Male and female created He them."