16 JUNE 1917, Page 21

• A Young Man from the South. By Lennox Robinson.

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involving mysterious Hindus and the worship of the evil godeesa Kali. The adventures are erxcitings—The Joyful Years. By F. T. Wanes. (Andrew Melrose. 58.)—The first part of this novel is pleasantly concerned with the doings of a sot of young people on their summer holiday. Tho interest becomes more serious later on, and the pictures of the hero in the trenches are well drawn.-- John Paramor's Purpose. By E. A. Smith. (Edward Asno'd. 6s.)—John Paramor'e purpose was—success. What he attained to was making himself thoroughly disagreeable. The good people in the story are a little too good and the bad people too bad.