28 APRIL 1923, Page 23

The Captain. More. By John Brandane. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) A

story of the Hebrides in the 1820'5. It is a very good specimen of the romantic novel descended from Scott. Plenty of local colour, dialect (not too Much of this), humour, pathos, lairds, dice, smugglers and wooing of two sisters. A thoroughly Colleague.. By Geraldine Waite. landau: Chapinskand Sall. Re.. 804

good piece of reconstruction with the principal merit that the reader forgets all about the period in the story itself.