25 FEBRUARY 1928, Page 27

TERENCE IN LOVE. By E. H. W. Meyerstein. (Palmer. 7s.

8d.)—There are some ingenious situations and an occasional facetious smartness in this autobiographical narrative of the love and other adventures of a young man with inherited criminal propensities. But the story, in which an absurd countess figures prominently, is not merely far-fetched, but needlessly spun out.