24 NOVEMBER 1928, Page 45

VENGEFUL GODS. By Gertrude Atherton. (Murray. 7s. 6d.)—In The Immortal

Marriage Mrs. Atherton told the story of Pericles and Aspasia. The present novel deals with the arrogant and stormy career of Alcibiades, the antithesis of Pericles in everything but ability and genius for leadership. Again we meet Socrates, Aristophanes, and other famous eharacteii. Like its forerunner, Vengeful Gods is conceived upon a generous scale, and is at once an exciting tale and an absorbing panorama, reflecting, learnedly yet lightly, almost every aspect of Greek life in the days of its glory.