4 OCTOBER 1913, Page 42

READABLE NOVELS.—Five Years and a Month. By Mrs. Morris Wood.

(Duckworth and Co. 6s.)—A record of an unhappy marriage, of the callousness of the husband, and the trivial flirtations of the heroine, who dies on the last page, to solve the difficulties of the situation.—The Soul of a Suffragette, and other Stories. By W. L. Courtney. (Chapman and Hall. 6s.)—A book of clever little sketches, ranging from the daughter of Herodias to the militant suffragette : they are only marred by occasional carelessness of writing.