TRAVELLER'S REST. By Mrs. Henry Dudeney. (Collins: 7s. 6d.)—Mrs. Dudeney's
books can always be relied on to give pleasant companionship for an hour or so : they are, as it were, slight acquaintances, full of the doings of. people with whom we do not become very intimate but who are interesting enough as pegs to hang a tale on. The latest one, which tells the story of a young girl, who, after having been brought up in a convent, goes to keep house for her parson brother, is very well told. The scene is Sussex, on the downs behind Brighton, and the author's description or
(Continued on page 1071.) (Continued from page 1068.) the bungalow dwellers is painted with bright touches of•local colour and is happily free from the "atmosphere" that
befogs most Sussex books. The characters of the drunkard parson and of the queer, mad Flatterys (into whose family, Clara, the heroine, marries) are well developed, and the story of her escapes from various miseries is crisply told.
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