OTHER NOVELS.—Greensea Island. By Victor Bridges. (Mills and Boon. 7s.
6d. net.)—A story of buried treasure, which, however, is on an island in England. This does not make the search for it any the less perilous, and, once the preliminaries of the story are over, the hero is in danger of his life in the course of almost every chapter.—The Necklace of Tears. By Louise Gerard. (Mills and Boon. 7s. 6d. net.)— The heroine of this novel is the ward of two French adventurers who, though of noble birth, are in reality swell mobsmen. It is the mission of the hero to rescue her from their clutches, and this, after many adventures, he successfully achieves. The complete blindness of the heroine in the first part of the book is not very convincing to the reader and does not seem essential to the course of the story. The young lady is quite sufficiently helpless without this physical disability.-11'hat Became of Mr. Desmond. By C. Nina Boyle. (George Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6c1. net.)—Mr. Desmond's disappearance was strange enough, but his reappearance and the resultant avalanche of terrible disclosures which overwhelm the unsuspecting Desmond family outrage all the laws of probability and, Inci- dentally, many of those of art.—The Valley of Paradise. By Alfred Gordon Bennett. (Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.)— Yet another story of wild adventures in the South Seas. The book bears all the marks of inexperience; it is disconnected, often incoherent, the dialogue is weak, and the purple patches are so much too purple that they appear to have nothing to do with the surrounding country. At the same time it is never dull, and the author may easily go farther than this.
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