24 MARCH 1923, Page 48

Nobody Knows. By Douglas Goldring. (Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d.

net.)

Mr. Goldring insists that his young novelist-hero, who sees a vision of his ideal woman on the Thames Embank- ment, is an intellectual, that he has read Berenson and Kraft- Ebing, knows his Paris and his Italy. Gilbert Vayle drifts through divorce and the life of London Bohemia towards an eminence above Florence, where he sees his ideal by moon- light, this time in the flesh: The story is cluttered with familiar " magic lurking in the shadows of trees," " easy, passionless kisses," which Mr. Goldring might almost have been expected to avoid.