6 JANUARY 1917, Page 32

Mr. A. C. Berrien puts his name on the title-page

of the second edition of Father Payne (Smith, Elder, and Co., 7s. 6d. net), which was issued anonymously. He says in his preface that he likes to publish his books in this way, and that ho has already given seven to the world without his name, though we may add that the observant reader experienced no great difficulty in divining the author's identity in the case of The Upton Letters or The College Window, any more than in the case of Father Payne, which was at once, as he says, assigned to him. It is a pleasant, good-natured book.