The Harvest Moon. By J. S. Fletcher. (Eveleigh Nash. 6s.)
—Mr. Fletcher does not quite convince us that a man could be so weak—especially if he were of an amiable disposition—as to behave as badly as the gentleman who passes himself off to the heroine of this book as Adrian Darrell. Granted, however, that Darrell would have vanished in the manner stated, the account of the heroine's subsequent conduct and life at Bruges is decidedly interesting. Indeed, the best part of the novel is the scenes which pass at Bruges and the descriptions of that delightful city. The death of Linda's boy, Pietje, seems a piece of entirely needless cruelty on the part of the author, the boy being a most attractive figure, though too precocious for his years. The book is pleasant reading, and the figure of the heroine well drawn.
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