28 SEPTEMBER 1912, Page 26

• Darne2ey Place. By Richard Begot. (Methuen and Co. Os.)—

There is a slight touch of occultism about Mn Bagot's new story, which, as usual, deals both with English and Italian life. Some of his characters have appeared in. former. -novels, but this will net prevent the reader into whose hands the earlier books have not fallen from. enjoying this one. The young Italian hero is a pleasant fignre, though the heroine is only an outline: Mr. Bagot's books are interesting chiefly from the light they afford to English people on the manners and customs of the Italian nobility, and the present book is as full of information on this point as its many predecessors.