11 MAY 1918, Page 16

READABLE NOVELS.—Thon—Dcuth—Arnateure. By MIS._ John Swift Joly. (John Long. 2s.

6d.)—An account of how a set of amateur nurses start a hospital in France, and are so ably led by their trained matron that, Instead of coming to grief as the follies of the opening chapters indicate, the hospital eventually becomes triumphantly successful.—Lady Eleanor, Private Simmonds, and Others. By Lord Frederic Hamilton. (Hurst and Blackett. 68.)—An Irish novel in which the two characters who fill the title- roles are too good to be credible. The friendship between them is amusingly described.