24 JULY 1909, Page 21

READABLE NOVELS. —The Conversion of Con Cregan, and other Stories. By

Dorothea Conyers. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)— Thirteen stories of unequal merit. Where the horse comes in the story is pretty sure to be good; but the best of all is "What the Red Cow Did."—Ths Wooden Horse. By H. S. Walpole. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)—The city to be taken is a family tradition of pride and exclusion ; the reader will find out for himself, not without pleasure, about "the wooden horse." But in this Troy there were traitors.