READABLE NOVELS.—The Manaton Disaster. By Philippa Tyler. (Heath Cranton. 6s.
9d. net.)—A very striking story of a mystery connected with the succession to a peerage. Unlike most plots of this kind, the character-drawing in the book is as interesting as the unravelling of the threads by which the disaster is gradually made clear to the
reader. Belonging. By Olive Wadsley. (Cassell. 78. 6d. net.)—The story of a woman who suffers imprisonment for a crime committed by the man she loves. There is a poignant account of her feelings under the horror of solitary confinement, but it must be confessed that the whole book is melodramatic. —Ambrose Lavenelale, Diplomat. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (Hodder and Stoughton. 2s. 6d. net.)—A series of detective stories in which the central figure is an American. The date being the middle of the war, the nature of the episodes will be obvious to the reader. They are ingeniously developed.
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