READABLE NOVELS.—Lure of Contraband. By J. Wears Giffard. (Jarrolds. 7s.
6d. net.)—A story of the good old days of smuggling. The inhabitants of the little port of Apple- dore are well and individually portrayed, and the heroine is an attractive figure.—Also Ran. By Mrs. Baillie Reynolds. (Hutchinson and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—This is the story of a Red Cross nurse who unfortunately falls in love with a patient, but finally on leave marries his brother to save her father's good name. The author makes a fairly interesting book with a happy ending to this rather hackneyed theme.—Temperament. By Dolf Wyllarde. (Stanley Paul and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is a musical novel, and the heroine is a composer of some dis- tinction. Her sentimental adventures are not completely convincing, and Lord Oswald Lancaster, the subject of the "hero-worship" of the sub-title, is of so commonplace and Unattractive a type that the reader will have very little sympathy with Joan Delamere's obsession.
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