31 AUGUST 1912, Page 22

READABLE NOVELS. — The Story of Joan Greencroft. By A. N. Bax.

(Mills and Boon. 6s.)—An eighteenth-century story with- out much plot, but written in a pleasant scholarly style.—The Storm Dog. By L. Arnold. (J. Long. 6s.)—A. grim tragedy of two generations told with power and picturesquely set between the moors and coast of Cornwall.—Force Majeure. By Patrick Rusden. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—The love affairs of four pleasant people told from a very feminine point of view.—Tenterhooks. By Ada Leverson. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—The trials of a heroine tied to an insufferably fatuous and errant husband.