LIGHT FICTION.
THE SECRET SANCTUARY. By Warwick Deeping. (Cassell. 73. 6d. net.) An amateur psychological treatise advocating a course d love and fresh air for the cure of shell-shock.
MAD'KEZEL SUZANNE. By Meg Villars. (Hurst and Blacket 7s. 6d. net.) This episodic life of a French girl educated in England seems to derive equally from Mr. Compton Mackenzie's Sinister Sired and Mr. W. L. Georges The Making of an Englishman. It attempts individuality by the use of a staccato style and of slightly vulgar incidents. The author could perhaps write better.
Sin OR MADAM ? By Berta Ruck. (Hutchinson. 73. 6d. net.) Sprightly.
Trim SUN-WORSHIPPER. By Kenneth Ingram. (Ouseley. Cs. net.) A silly and distasteful story.
THE VENGEANCE OF HENRY JARROMAN. By Roy Vickers. (Herbert Jenkins. 7s. 6d. net.) " The hatred of Henry Jarroman was something more than a passion ; it was a religion." But he apostasized when he knew better the charming daughter of his enemy.
FERN SEED. By Henry Milner Rideout. (Hurst and Blackett. 63. net.) A mystery story resting on a " mistaken identity." The humour and rapidity of the narrative distinguish it from similar novels.
THE FAITHFUL HEAR'. By Dion Clayton Calthrop. (Hodder and Stoughton. 33., ed. net.) A Jolly story of a colonel, once a sea captain, who discovers an unexpected daughter. It Is amusing and has no higher pretensions.
THE GIRL AT BIG LooN POST. By George van Sehaik. (Hurst and Blacken. 7s. 6d. net.) A simple and competerit story of liudson's Bay, which gains vastly by its apparent truth to ficrandltictil colour,
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