22 OCTOBER 1927, Page 41

SUSY IN THE WORLD. By A. Waddington Seers. (Noel Douglas.

7s. 6d.)—This story is a family chronicle, simple in theme and manner, but written with considerable sympathy and quiet humour. The two sisters, Chewy and Susy Farr, are well contrasted. Cherry, the elder, prettier, but more superficial of the two girls, carries everything before her even in childhood and, later, while Susy goes to Bourne- mouth to nurse an invalid aunt, Cherry steals her lover and marries him. Susy is thrown back upon her devotion to her brother, but he is killed in the War ; and it is a long and difficult road that brings her at last to solid, if unecstatic, happiness. There is nothing remarkable in this first novel. But Susy is a lovable heroine, ably dilineated.