READABLE NOVELS. —The Love Lesson. By E. Martyn Clarke. (J.
W. Arrowsmith. 6s. net.)—This book, as the title announces, is a love story pure and simple. It is prettily told, and is just the thing for idle holiday reading.—The Trial Stone. By John Gower. Wen and Unwin. 6s. net.)—The hero of this story begins life as a Civil Servant, an employment of which he tires, and which he throws up for business. The advent of the war brings as complete a change for him as for the rest of the world. It is rather odd that the author should make a mistake in the date of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which did not take place, as he states, on " one Sunday morning in July, to be precise the 28th July, 1914," but on the same date in June, and a whole month, not a week, elapsed before the world war became inevitable.
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