10 NOVEMBER 1928, Page 35

DOGSBODY. By Donald Sinderby. (Herbert Jenkins. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Sinderby, having

written two serious novels of Indian life, now gives us, with an Indian and Egyptian setting, a very good exercise in farce. Lieutenant Cotteram, M.C., alias Dogsbody," is an engagingly imprudent and impudent young subaltern. He falls in love with his general's daughter. But the general's wife, a veritable Amazon, is implacably opposed to him. How "Dogsbody," having made various unsuccessful attempts to win the regard of his prospective mother-in-law, finally outwits her, is told by Mr. Sinderby in a series of chapters which, each dealing with a fresh escapade, reveal true inventiveness as well as humour.