24 DECEMBER 1910, Page 28

The Flint Heart. By Eden Phillpotts. (Smith, Elder, and Co.

6s.)—A certain ambitious man among the New Stoners, Phutt by name, procures from the medicine-man of his tribe a charm, a heart of flint. It gives him the strength by which he becomes chief of his tribe. Some millenniums afterwards the charm is dug up by some explorer, and falls into the hands of a Dartmoor farmer. What mischief it does and what became of it, and how it was turned to good purposes—Dartmoor seems to owe its virtues to the charm turned into its proper shape—is told here with much variety of what we may call byplay.