‘- '01 ; 131E11 NOVEIS.—Guinea Girl. By Norman Davey. (Chapman and Hall. 8s.
6d. net.)—Most of Mr. Norman Davey's readers will expect a good deal from a full-length novel by the author of The Pilgrim of a Smile ; they will be disappointed. Guinea Girl is the story of a demi-mondaine who 'makes good and of a weak youth who does not. Mr. Davey's irony and grip seem to have failed him. Perhaps this is an early work resuscitated.-11 ightfall. By the Author of Jenny Easenden. (Constable. 7s. 6d. not.)—A very clever novel which, while it contrives to deal realistically with poet-War life in a country house, at the same time provides one or two exciting and sensa- tional situations.---East is East. By Major-General T. D. Filcher, C.B. (John Lane. 7s. 6d. not.)—Three short stories, of which the two beat are concerned with the always turbulent borderland of the North-West Frontier. General Filcher is a close and critical observer of native mentality.—Love and Diana. By Concordia Merrel. (Selwyn and Blount. 7s. 6d. net.) This rather commonplace love story, concerning a marvellously beautiful heroine and an Adonis-like hero, contains t.wo very exciting episodes, one of which is set in a background of South African scenery, described in a convincing and picturesque manner. —What Timmy Did. By Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. (Hutchinson. Es. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, in her now novel, gets her usual sub-flavour of the psychical from the strange mentality of a small boy. The book is a description of life in a Surrey village, in which settles an attractive, but mysterious, Delilah, whose plans are brought to naught by Timmy—the boy in question.
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