25 APRIL 1931, Page 24

New Novels

FOUR FRIGHTENED PEOPLE. By E. Arnot Robertson. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.)—A vivid, exciting and fantastic tale describing how, after escaping from a plague-ridden steamer, two badly matched couples -struggle on foot through Malay. The " noises off " in the jungle are at times excessively melodramatic.