5 JANUARY 1924, Page 28

THE BOND TRIUMPHANT. By Gordon Hill Grahame. (Hodder and Stoughton.

7s. 6d. net.) This is a very good novel although (or should we say because ?) it has won a prize. It is not only a story of adventure. It is a love story. Love is the bond triumphant—a pure, fresh, natural love, instinct with youth. Owing to machinations— there should always be machinations in a love story—of politicians and priests, these unfortunate, but still radiantly happy, young people cannot get anybody to marry them, though they scour the country, infested with Red Indians, at risk of life and limb. The scene is laid in ancient French- Canada. The author belongs to the vigorous, manly, non- psychological school of Mr. John Buchan. Not that the book is in any sense derivative.