READABLE NOVELS.—The Chaps of Harlon. By Desmond Coke. (Chapman and
Hall. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Coke's comic parody of a school story is occasionally relieved by touches of real humour, which are worthy of a finer setting.—A Way- faring Soul. By Walter Raymond. (J. M. Dent and Sons. 2s. 6d. net.)—An attempt, not without charm, to combine the methods of Maeterlinck and Bunyan in a mystical account of the soul's search after truth.—The Magic Fire. By Frances Hammond. (Chapman and Hall. 6s.)—Although some of her minor characters are well drawn, Miss Hammond fails to interest us in her somewhat priggish heroine, or to convince us of the probability of her unmarried motherhood: the book is overladen with quotations.—Cake. By Bobun Lynch. (John Murray. 6s.)—Mr. Lynch's gossiping little story, although written with ease and some humour, has no parti- 'ular plot or drawing of character to recommend it.
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