5 JUNE 1926, Page 26

Ragnarok. By Shaw Desmond. (Duckworth. 7s. 6d. net.) This novel

is another specimen of the awful warnings against the future world war; but Mr. Shaw Desmond, although he ruthlessly wipes out European civilization, leaves hope for the Neiv World. It must be confessed that the first section of the book is the most successful, describing. very vividly and imaginatively the arrival of the :heroine in her airship over New York. Later, however, the reader will have his fill of horrors and May well disagree with the 'author's scornful references to the Leakue of Nations.