30 NOVEMBER 1918, Page 22

READABLE NOVELS.—Tfie Chrharrl of Tears. By Fax- Polirner„ (Methuen and

Co. 6s. net. )—An account of a rather impossible genius who writes a gospel of the war, the introduction to which attracts universal attention. He, however, burns the manuscript of the book itself, and it must be confessed that the ordinary reader will be puzzled to understand his motives.—Eastern Reek By Helen Huntington. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 6s. net.)—A story of American society during the war. The most interesting person is not„ how- ever, the heroine, but " Rose Durand," who revives the sentimental' songs of mid-Victorian times and sings them in New York drawing-rooms.