28 APRIL 1917, Page 20

RIADABLE NOVELS.—The Ivory Snuffbox. By Arnold Fredericks. (Simpkin, Marshall, and

Co. 6s-:—A thrilling detective story in which German spies and English diplomats and secret police are inextricably interwoven.—The Blue Lights. (Same author, publishers, and price.) — Although this book is not so thrilling as The Ivory Snuffbox, it still is most exciting, and the comedy of the husband and wife unconsciously working on different sides of the mystery is well sustained.— Separation. By Alice Perrin. (Cassell and Co. 6s.)—An Anglo-Indian novel in which the charm of India to English rulers and the difficulties which they encounter in their home lives are sympathetically analysed. —Zella Sees Herself. By E. M. Delafield. (William Heinemann. 6s.) —This book gives a close analysis of the developments of character from her early teens to her twenties of the daughter of a French father— who lives in England—and an English mother, who dies when her daughter is fourteen years old.