13 MARCH 1926, Page 47

Creighton the Admirable. By Kenneth Ashley. (John Lane. 7s. 6d.)-This

appears to be a first book and, although there is a certain promise about it, the story is planned on too large a scale and the episodes tend to repetition. The Admir- able Creighton is a young surgeon of excellent ability, who, owing to a mental kink, makes a failure of everything he undertakes. After many disasters, such as killing an operation patient by neglect, he is rehabilitated in his profession in the early days of the War. We are left to believe that he is about to make good, though this belief involves a good deal of credulity.