26 MAY 1923, page 19

Whose Law I By Dorothy Cosens. (melrose. 6s.) We Cannot

understand why a novelette of the cheapest kind should have been put between stiff boards and foisted upon the public at 6s. a copy. The theme of this book is hopelessly......

John Penrose. By J. C. Tregarthen. (john Murray. 7s. 6d.)

Mr. Tregarthen has hitherto been known to the public by his Nature books, and it was with some trepidation that we ventured to read his first essay in a more sophisticated form.......

Harlequin And Columbine. By Booth Tarkington. (heino-...

jeu d'esprit is most charming. Only the experienced artist can be successful in such work, and the author has that experience. There is not a heavy or false note in the little......

Fiction;

PORTRAIT OF A SCULPTOR.* THE critic of imaginative literature is an unfortunate creature. He reads for business what more fortunate people read for pleasure, and where others......

Found Money. By George A. Birmingham. (methuen. 7s. 6d.

net.) net.) Mr. Birmingham has invented a clever and amusing plot for his new novel, and he tells it with experience and a com- fortable wit. He does not " command attention,"......