Mr. Whybrew's Princess. By Howard C. Rowe. (Alston Rivers. 6s.)—This
story, which deals with imaginary fighting in the Balkans, gives a terrible picture of the barbarities and cruelties which unfortunately are not confined to fictitious warfare in those wild regions. The author writes with a quiet humour which is rather brutal, considering the subject ; but he (or should it be she?) does not make quite as much as might have been made of the distinctly humorous situation of a scientific London chemist being the rightful occupant of a very insecure throne in South-Eastern Europe. Mr. Tedder," who is in reality Prince Feodor of Transiola, is really too good and too wise to be possible, and it is hard to believe that the retired grocer, who is the hero of the book, could ever have survived the hardships to which he is subjected in the course of his adventures. There are plenty of stirring episodes in the story—and indeed it is much easier to provide them when mediaeval methods are allowed to the combatants than when the author is describing modern civilized warfare.
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