Fiction
THE PARTRIDGE. By Elizabeth Murray. (John Lane. 7s. 6d.)—The three dominant personalities in this book are John Moreton, successful in business but suffering from repressions of childhood ; Philip; young and charming but romantic to a fault ; and Josephine, his mother, whose strong personality brings both to destruction. The authoress is skilful in focussing one's attention equally on all three. They are real people and, although the end is a little forced, there is a certain inevitability about the development -of the plot which almost makes the impcissible convincing, and one puts down the book with a feeling of sudden loss, of separation
from a world which has grown up all around one. We shall look forward with, pleasure to the next book from this young authoress.
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