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THE PAGODA. By Marjorie Bowen. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)-We

expect of " best-sellers " certain stock types of character. This time Miss Bowen has chosen, with Touraine for the background, the elderly widow who is still hungry - for romance, but who, on having the man she loves filched from her by a younger woman, finds happiness in-self-remmciation- A typical Bowen story. .