22 SEPTEMBER 1928, Page 31

NEAME OF KENT. By Frank Dilnot. (Brentano's. 7s. 6d.)-Readers who

like a good " yarn " with an historical setting, but who are not too meticulous in their desire for historical accuracy will thoroughly enjoy this novel. Not but what Mr. Dilnot knows his seventeenth century, and gives us some convincing colour of England during the Civil War. But fancy also enters freely into this story, told in the first person, of a young yeoman who, having been expelled from school for assaulting a bully, finds himself involved, from motives satisfying to his own conscience, in a plot to steal the Crown Jewels. His later exploits, until his marriage with the daughter of a famous Royalist, make vivid and picturesque reading.