BLUE TIGER YARD. By Charles Landstonc. (Faber and Gwyer. 7s.
6d.)—As an authoritative and particularly well written study of Jewish temperament this novel deserve; the highest praise. Aaron Lakarin, an illiterate Pole, comes
to London and in course of time makes his fortune as a " jeweller " in Blue Tiger Yard, Whitechapel. The Great War brings further prosperity, and the Jewish exodus to Highbury and Hampstead begins. Aaron's son, Reuben, whose early life is followed in some detail, is now twenty. four, and, with plenty of money at his disposal, gives rein for a period to the romantic strain which wars in his tem- perament with family pride. At last, however, loyalty to the clan triumphs in him, and, after. various attempts to escape into a wider world, he marries a mediocre Jewess whom he has known from boyhood. The novel has a good plot and some strong scenes. But its rare distinction lies in its quiet, sympathetic, and thoroughly convincing pictures of Jewish life in modern England.
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