28 APRIL 1923, Page 23

The Road. By Lady Dorothy Mills. (Duckworth. 7s. 6d. net.)

Hilda Wangell in Ibsen's Master Builder expresses her long- ing to be carried away by a troll. This is exactly what happens to Lisbeth, the heroine of Lady Dorothy Mills's new novel, The Road. The troll is, however, the Sheik of the mysterious tribe of the Blue Cross in the Sudan, and Lisbeth is delighted with her forcible abduction. The devious path by which she reaches this desired end—from the opening chapter which finds her as the wife of a grocer at Putney—is set out enter- tainingly enough by the author.