spring Shall Plant. By Beatrice Harraden. (Hodder and Stoughton. he.
6d. net.)--Gives an account of a young girl of abundant vitality named Patuff a. It seems likely from the last chapter that this book is merely the first instalment of a le: Tute ..44Sufam Madderar. By A. Z. W. Masan London: and Stoughton complete biography and that Alias Harraden will presently let us know how " Autumn garnered " for her heroine. There are amusing accounts of the many girls' schools from which Patuffa is expelled, but she at last makes good in Dresden, to the advantage of the musical talent to which her subsequent career is to be devoted. The pictures of Patuffa's mother and Russian godmother, Mine. Tcharusliin (from whom is derived the heroine's extraordinary Christian name), are full of vivid colour, and the whole book shows that ability of handling to which Miss Harraden has accustomed her readers. But the new fashion of publishing novels in a series of disconnected volumes makes the opening chapters a little difficult to judge.
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