3 JANUARY 1925, Page 28

SEDUCERS IN ECUADOR. By Miss V. Sackville West. (The Hogarth

Press. 7s. 6d.) Miss SACKVILLE WEST has broken out into a new manner in this little book. Instead of her full-length dramatic and rather old-fashioned novels, we get a slim, fantastic conte in the best Bloomsbury manner—something of the form of " Lady into Fox." Readers will consider this an advance or a regression, according to their tastes ; but at any rate they must all admit that Seducers in Ecuador is in its own way and on its own standards about as good as it could be, and if they disapprove, like us, of those standards, they will forget their disapproval in the enjoyment of reading the book itself.