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ONSLAUGHT. By Joan Sutherland. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.) —Miss Sutherland gives

passion and virility to an old plot. Two women of widely different temperaments are in love with Lionel Kent. Simone St. Auban is an exquisite, sensual,' cynical woman of the world, while Dolores Mandeville is spiritual and unselfish. The unscrupulous Simone wins the first round of the fight, but Dolores gains the final victory. The scene is laid partly in Leicestershire and partly in a fever- infected region of South America. The characters are corn= petently drawn, and there is plenty of colour and excitement.