6 AUGUST 1927, Page 23

GREEN FOREST. By Nathalie Sedgwick Colby. (.Jona- than Cape. 7s.

6d.)—The scene is staged on board a liner in the passage between New York and Cherbourg. The little world of the passengers is ably described and the American heroine is an attractive figure. The book would have been more successful if the psychology of the characters had been analysed in greater detail, as there are no events to interest the reader.