27 OCTOBER 1923, Page 26

STONY GROUND. By Lady Miles. (Hutchinson. 78. 6d.) The story

purports to be the history of a " virtuous vampire." Her sister, the second heroine, who has all the sympathy of her creator, strikes the reader as a selfish and conceited artist. The minor characters live. The whole story concerns ordinary life. Most of it is provocative and none of it is dull.