BREAD AND HONEY. By Madeline Linford. , (Heine- mann. 75.
6d.)--Miss Angela Worth, resident in that self- conscious though charming Cheshire village, Clonterbrook, received five packages of notepaper among her Christmas gifts. The Vicar, as a -Mild joke, suggested that -she should write a book. So she penned the kind of novel she liked, called it "Island Love," and her delighted but ribald publishers found that her name,- not too good to be true, had become a household word. For her second book she went to the South Seas for local colour, and found herself Marooned on a real island. But this is a. story-to be read- with sheer joy by all- except those who would like " Island Love." Your smile will beunfailing, for Miss Linford is an exquisite satirist. The book is a tonic draught of hilarity, without, a, headache or a heartache in it, for the ineffable fatuity. of Miss Angela Worth beComes endearing. She is elephantine, and yet appealing. Miss Linford's style is so just and fine that it is a pleasure in itself ; and when Miss Worth..is carried, through the Low Archipelago by the perfidious "Winsome Witch," the mar- vellous seas and islands are evoked with such a soft vehemence of beiiitY thieVie nearly forget our Angela in ádiñir- ation. This is a delicious- comedy. . . - • _ - -
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