20 MAY 1922, page 21

From The Life.*

run author of these seven " Imaginary Portraits " has evidently succeeded better than he hoped in realizing his subjects. Had * From the Life. By Harvey O'Higgins. London :......

Fiction.

THE CHARLES MEN.* IT is a commonplace that good books are harder to review than bad : the quality of badness is generally demonstrable —by quotation, say, or general analysis ;......

Blindfold. By Mrs. Victor Rickard. (jonathan Cape. 7s....

Victor Rickard's work is always distinguished, and although in Blindfold she has not chosen a particularly attractive subject, still her study of Francis Huntingdon is......

Other Novels.—heather Mixture. By " Klaxon." (black-...

net.)—A novel of sport. There are long descrip- tions of grouse-shooting and a certain amount of hunting. All this is mixed in with an appropriate love interest. Sportsmen will......