12 APRIL 1913, Page 25

READABLE NOVELS.—A Necessity of Life and other Stories. By Madame

van der Goes. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)--A book of short stories which are promising as their author's first venture. Madame van der Goes has a pretty gift for light comedy, but she takes so cynical a view of life that the reader will suspect her of being very young. "Under the Terror" is a good story of the supernatural which shows that the author is capable of doing justice to more interesting themes than those furnished by modern society.