29 MAY 1920, Page 21

READABLE Novats.—B. 14. By R. K. Weekes. (Allen and Unwin.

Is. 6d. net.)—An interesting novel in which the feelings of a man undergoing imprisonment for manslaughter during the first months of the war are poignantly described. Although this is the most striking situation, the whole book is excellent reading.—Call Mr. Fortune. By H. C. Bailey. (Methuen. 7s. net.)—A series of detective stories in which the principal personage is a young doctor whose powers of disentangling crime are almost miraculous.—The Almonds of Life. By F. E. Mills Young. (Hodder and Stoughton. 75. 6d. net.)—An account of two spoilt marriages. The book has an excellent moral, as it shows the unhappy consequences of a guilty passion openly indulged.