The Unknown Quantity. By Charles Inge. (Eveleigh Nash. 6s.)—This novel
is too long, the conversations are spun out, and the minute observation becomes occasionally trivial, while small phrases are annoyingly repeated; at the end, though the telling improves, there are minor threads in the story which are left hanging loose. Yet it is worth reading. It is the story of an honest young man who falls in love with a blind girl whose character is full of charm. He happens to be led into the study of eugenics. Hence the trouble, in which love is victorious. We are not told whether a doctor would have thought the marriage likely to have ill results, and the book is in no sense a tract against eugenics ; without any lapse from good taste the extreme eugenists' ideals of scientific mating are condemned as unnatural, but their principles are treated with full respect. It is an in- teresting book, and we hope that Mr. Ingo will give ns another, bearing in mind the blemishes pointed out at the beginning of this notice.
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