READABLE NOVELS.—The Wall. By John Cournos. (Methuen. 8s. 6d. net.)—The
second volume of a trilogy. The Russian Jew hero of The Mask is taken another stage on his journey, and when we leave him at the age of thirty-one he appears to be at last about to make his first successful assault upon the wall of adverse circumstance which hems him in. The cosmo- politan atmosphere of the Art School in Philadelphia is cleverly reproduced.—The Divine Adventure. By Theodore Maynard. (Erskine Macdonald. 7s. 6d. net.)—The story of two conver- sions to Rome, with a plot that hinges on vows made and un- made. Some of the incidental verse—obviously original—is not without distinction.—Maumbury Rings. By G. V. McFadden. (Hodder and Stoughton. 8s. 6d.)—Though too melodramatic to be entirely convincing, this tale of the Regency is nevertheless quite good reading. The action is hurried from one passionate crisis to another, and the dialogue is unusually free- from superfluous archaisms.
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