14 NOVEMBER 1925, Page 34

OTHER NOVELS

The Fire in the Flint. By Walter F. White. (Williams and Norgate. 7s. 6d. net.)-4 coloured doctor in practice inn Southern town in the States, a decent, thoughtful man, is bitterly at a loss to justify the attitude of his white neighbours to his fellow-negroes. He himself is 'ultimately lynched on a ' trumped-up charge of assault while attending a white patient.' The novel is a compelling document. It throws interesting. light on the colour-question as it concerns America, and is recommended to seriously-minded readers.