6 OCTOBER 1928, Page 45

THE GARDEN OF PEACE. By Mary Forrester. (Hutch- inson. 75.

6d.)-Something of the Barchester atmosphere per- vades this novel. We dO not mean that The Garden of Peace is seriously comparable with Framley Parsonage. Still less do we hint that Miss Forrester is consciously imitative. But lovers of Trollope will enjoy this quiet, leisurely chronicle of English life, which, having for its setting a little old town on an estuary, follows the development of a daughter of the manor from her early youth, when she is cheated out of romance by the jealousy of another girl, to the time when, happily married to a delightful clergyman, she can look, back with thankful- ness upon disappointments and mistakes 'that successively seemed so tragic as they occurred. This is a very pleasant and human story.