14 NOVEMBER 1925, Page 34

Sandalwood. By Fulton Oursler. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.. net.)—A triangular situation

freshly but over-romantically treated by an American writer. Sacred and profane love in the person of a rather too dazzling woman musician and a hum-, drum wife strive for the possession of a commonplace but self-deluding business man. There is a shrewdness about the actual writing which mitigates the sententiousness of the characterization and conversations, and the author satirizes his countr) men very brightly.