2 APRIL 1932, page 24

Fiction

Inheritance. By Pits tis Bentley. (Collunez. 8s. 6d.) Hrvarwrt4 arc, as usual. being abused for hailing master - pieees every week. I heard two elder 'noels, only last Thursday.......

Summer's Night. By Sylvia Thompson. (heinemann. Is....

increases in power and in ease, but there is still a note of triviality which ultim- ately weakens her attractive presentation of the social scene.......

Earthquake In Surrey. By Lilian Arnold. (thorn- Ton...

6d.)—Contains the description of a long fight between two women, for the custody of a child and the love of a farm bailiff. One of the rivals is flamboyant, vulgar and......

Dominique. By. Eugene Fromentin. Translated By V. I....

78. 6d.)—Dominique, which first appeared in 1862, occupies the same - sort of position in French as Cranford in English literature. There is, of course, as much. difference......

Although. By Lord Gorell. (murray. 7s. Tid.)—lovers'...

of a romantic noielist's stock-in-trades, and Lord Goren makes the most of such a situation, keeping his couple apart until` the husband's virtuous Scotch persistence and the......

The Irish Volunteer. By Francis Carty.. (dent. 7s....

of Art Russell, who, as little more than a boy, organized a flying column against' the Black-and- Tans," told vividly, fair-mindedly, and with humour. Redmond and Michael......

Gallop. By Jolm Ressich. (berm. 7s. Fid.)—" The Truth Is,"

says the author, in a preface to his War book, " that the vast bulk of the Army had . . . the time of their lives." If this is so, we know a surprising number of liars.......

New Novels

THE SILVER EAGLE. By W. R. Burnett. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.)—Aspiring Chicago business men should avoid gangsters, especially if, like Frank Harworth, they aspire also to culture......