OTHER NOVELS.—Graven Image. By Margaret Wid- demer. (Harrap. 7s. 6d.
net.)—A very able American novel, The self-beatification of the Gaylord family is extremely cleverly described. The sympathies of the reader, however. are entirely with their down-trodden cousins, the Westerns, whose rehabilitation is comforting, though it seems to make astonishingly little difference to the dramatis personae. The book is interesting throughout and depicts aspects of American daily life which emphasize the difference in the mentality of the British and American nations.—The Call. By Edith Ayrton Zangwill. (Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.)—When a more or less amende honorable has been made by the so-called -oppressor in a campaign there seems little use in reviving the discreditable details of individual battles. Mrs Zangwill's novel, The Call, deals with the most sensational aspects of the pre-War Suffragette campaign. Forcible feeding and battles with the police figure largely in its pages, and the love story is only of a subsidiary interest.
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