2 JUNE 1923, Page 19

The Desert Horizon. By E. L. Grant Watson. (Cape. 7s.

6d.) The principal character in this novel is the Australian Bush. It is at the same time sinister and seductive, and it effect on civilized persons is quite remarkable. The severe beauty of the scenery is well realized in the descriptions, as well as the other quality it has, the brooding solitude, which drives one woman to suicide. At the end of this book the young hero takes his bride up into this dangerous country, to the very farm at which the suicide took place. Whether her nerves stand the strain or not will be told us, we presume, in a future volume.