4 DECEMBER 1926, Page 48

Other Novels

Tug familiar plot of the girl brought up in affluence and reduced to poverty is presented by Mrs. Harrod (Fiances Forbes-Robertson) in her new volume; Lovers (Jarrolds. 7s. 6d. net).- Although the matter is not original—indeed, we think the author might have spared us the accusations of theft against the heroine—the book is written with a consider- able sense of style. * * * There are excellent scenes relating to life in the office of a cotton mill in M. E. Francis and Agnes Blundell's Tyrers' Lass (Sands and Co., 6s. net). but the plot is rather trite, and we might have been spared the essays 'on Roman C.atholicism.