30 OCTOBER 1909, Page 25

READABLE Novms.—The Castle by the Sea. By H. B. Marriott

Watson. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—A somewhat complicated story which will repay the trouble of disentangling it.—A Daughter of the Storm. By Captain Frank H. Shaw. (Cassell and Co. 6s.) —A very spirited tale of the sea, with a heroine who is a heroine indeed.