6 APRIL 1929, Page 26

THE CONQUERING STAR. By Barbara Goolden. (Chapman and Hall. 7s.

6d.)-Miss Goolden here concludes her series of studies of post-War society. Some of her.previous characters reappear. The plot turns upon the love of Una Rowan for Bertie Maby. Una, the daughter of a Colonel of the old school, has lost her husband and brother in the War, and is torn between loyalty to the family tradition and her passion for Bertie, who has suffered imprisonment as a pacifist. An unexpected but reasonable climax is reached after a story rich, like its predecessors, in varied portraiture and natural dialogue.