MR. BALCONY. By C. H. B. Kitchin. (The Hogarth Press.
7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Kitchin gives us a novel whose principal interest depends on fine touches of satire and detailed description of such matters as the watching of a procession by all the characters of the drama and their sub- sequent journey together in Mr. Balcony's hired yacht. This gentleman appears in the beginning of the story to be a bachelor dilettante living in great comfort in a small house in Knightsbridge. In reality he is as mad as a hatter—a con- dition manifested by more than the fact that lie is living on his capital, with whose last remnants he hires the yacht by means of which he intends to commit an expensive and bloody suicide in the tropics. A fantastic story such as this is only justified if the author succeeds in convincing his readers of the inevitable nature of its development, and in this Mr. Kitchin fails.
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