READABLE NOVELS.—The Burning Secret. By Stefan Zweig. (George Allen and
Unwin. Os. net.)—An acute psychological study of the kind which leaves the student with a sense that he has been looking on at a painful operation performed without the aid of an anaesthetic. The situation is triangular, the details are unpleasant, but the implied moral is obvious and salutary.— Helen Marsden. By M. Morgan Gibbon. (Hutchinson. 8a. 6d. net.)—Anyone specially interested in the understanding and development of "ugly ducklings" will enjoy this book. It is an extremely sympathetic study, and although there is some rather violent wire-pulling necessary for the removal of inconvenient characters, the personalities of the youthful hero and heroine are consistently evolved.—The Azure Lake. By Cecil Adair. (Stanley Paul. 8s. 6d. net.)—There is nothing original about the "mis- taken identity" device which furnishes a plot for The Azure Lake, but a simple, pleasant story with the conventional happy ending has sometimes attractions which are missed by more ambitious work.—Blind. By Ernest Poole. (Macmillan. 8s. 6d. net.)—The war, its prelude and aftermath, from an American point of view. Possibly the most interesting part of the book is that devoted to a very convincing account of a girl's experiences in Germany as tho wife of a German-American
chemist working on poison gas. •
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