OTHER NovErs.—Daughters of Hecuba. By Clara Viebig, translated by Anna
Barwell. (George Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.)—As its title conveys, this is a war novel about the sorrows and sufferings of German women in war time. Its main interest for the English reader is the picture it gives of life in a Berlin suburb from 1914 to 1918. The obvious sin- cerity and true pathos of the book will awaken the sympathy of understanding in many hearts.—Brass. By Charles G. Norris. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d. net.)—There is much that is classical about the form of this American " novel of marriage," but everything that is modern about the dramatis personae and the setting. In the course of its four hundred odd pages, which are devoted to the history of one generation of the Baldwin family, all the problems of the married state are encountered and the difficulties and dangers of divorce laid bare. The book is a very human document and points, moreover, a sound moral.— Savages. By Gordon Ray Young. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d. net.)—An exciting story of lawless adventures in the South Seas, involving a chase after two criminals and an execution of impromptu justice.--The Measure of Youth. By Emmeline Morrison. (John Long. 7s. net.)—The award of £500 for the author's first novel, Good Grain, has had the unfortunate result that Mrs. Morrison has perpetrated a second novel. That her second book, if not worse than her first, shows as great an in- eptitude for literature as its predecessor is certain. Cheap melodrama is the phrase that best describes The Measure of Youth, and we think it is not going too far to say that so much bad English, slipshod thinking, triteness of expression and obviousness of invention are seldom confined between the two boards of a single novel.
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