OTHER NOVELS.—The Gray Charteris. By Robert Simpson. (Hodder and Stoughton.
7s. 6d. net.)—The romance of a man who played a lone hand amongst the black and white traders in the Niger Delta. The secret of the success of this as of others of Mr. Simpson's African stories may with a good measure of probability be traced to his masterly avoidance of the .obvious.—An Ordinary Couple. By J. E. Buekrose. (Herbert Jenkins. 7s. 6d. net.)—It had better be said at once that this is not everybody's book. The story, such as it is, describes the early married life of a young couple of the English lower middle-class. The situ- ations presented embody in turn the sentimental, the common- place, the pathetic, the trivial, rarely the humorous, never the sublime. But although it may not have been the lot of every reader to have known such people as George and Nellie, after hearing Miss Buekrose on the subject no one could doubt for a moment that they, or such as they, exist.
• Women of the Hine. By Barry Tighe. London: Cape. [7s. ed. net-1
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