23 MAY 1925, Page 16

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS

Tim publishers are more gracious now : we seemed to be in for a stodgy season, but it has been enlivened by a surprising number of good novels. Lately we have received The Mother's Recompense, by Edith Wharton (Appleton), The Glory of the Conquered, by Susan Glaspell (Jarrold), Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf (Hogarth Press), and The Tortoiseshell Cat, by Naomi Royde Smith (Constable). Now we have St. Mawr, by D. H. Lawrence (Seeker), and Mr. Petre, by Hilaire Belloc (Arrowsmith). And these are a small proportion of the novels for the library list. Perhaps Mr. Belloc's novel is the most welcome ; he writes none too many. And Mr. Petre is in his best farcical manner.