PASSING THE LOVE OF WOMEN. By Guiseppe Bianco. (Cassell. 7s.
6d. net.)—Though the lurid paper- jacket of this novel suggests that the contents are sheer melodrama, in fact its tale of a more than ordinary affection between one brother for another is thin-spun romance. That late in life the brothers learn there is actually no blood bond whatever between them only makes more dramatic the clash of jealousies between the younger and more picturesque man's wife and the older, protective brother. All the six principal characters are vague but likeable. The nom de plume of the author cloaks the identity of a writer said to be unknown even to his—or is it her ?—publishers, but who certainly has the art of creating an innocuous tale of the kind most suited to family reading. Scenes at a Public School and Cambridge, and pre-War town and country life are described, while the extremely sentimental tale is unfolded in straightforward but sometimes saccharine style.
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