READABLE NOVELS.—The Golden Bird. By Dorothy Easton. (Heinemann. 78. 6d.)—A
series of clever sketches which occasionally contain enough plot and are of sufficient length to be called short- stories. The writing is, as Mr. John Galsworthy says in his preface, distinguished and sensitive. A book very well worth writing and, what is more, worth reading afterwards.—Mare Nostrum. By V. Blasco Ibanez. (Constable. 9s. net.)—lbanez might be described as a Latin Conrad. His latest novel is a story of the sea, a romance in the widest sense of the word, and in style and moral outlook it is typically Spanish. —Imprudence. By E. F. Mills Young. (Hodder and Stough- ton. 8s. 8d.)—The Dominant Race and some other South African stories by the same author are more interesting than this novel, which deals with the unattractive existence of .a middle class family during the War.—Ditte Girl Alive. M. A. Nexo. (Heinemann. 9s.)—A translation from the Danish.—An unpleasant story that follows that Scandinavian tradition of gloom. A depressing study of the sordid lives of Danish peasants who live and die in squalor. The translation seems adequate.
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