READABLE NOVELS.—Love in a Thirsty Land. By A. C. Inchbold.
(Chatto and Windus. 6s)—A sentimental and rather highly coloured story of the "rescue" of a girl from convent life in Syria.--Louis Norbert. By Vernon Lee. (John Lane. 6s.)—" Vernon Lee," to give us of her delightful English and of her knowledge of Italy, has chosen a romance of the seventeenth century, told by means of a twentieth-century correspondence.—The Waters of Twilight. By C. C. Martindale. (Longmans and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—A series of little sketches, religious in tone, intimate and yet shallow.—Poor Mrs. Egerton. By Mrs. G. S. Reaney. (Heath, Cranton, and Ouseley. 2s. net.)—If Mrs. Reaney's style were not so stilted and artificial, this story of life in a community would be humorous enough.— The Bale-Fire. By Mrs. Hugh Fraser and Hugh Fraser. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—One of those novels whose con- ventional plot depends on the technical fidelity of a wife. It is, nevertheless, pleasant and spirited.—The Death of a Nobody. By Jules Romains. Translated by Desmond MacCarthy and Sydney Waterlow. (Howard Latimer. 4s. 6d. net.)—A. most adequate translation has been given to this brilliant study in "atmospheres."—The Comic Kingdom. By Rudolf Piekthall. (John Lane. 3s. 6d. net.) — An account of a visit of a set of modern tourists to Elba. The book would really have been better if it had not been dressed up as fiction, as the whole interest centres in the relics of Napoleon.
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