OTaxa NOVELS.—A King in the Lists. By May Wynne. (Stanley
Paul. '7s. 6d. net.)—The thrilling adventures of a young Burgundian soldier and his lady-love in their efforts to defeat the avaricious malice of that most despicable of monarchs, Louis XI. Hairbreadth escapes and desperate . remedies are the order of the day, and the sketch of Louis himself is vivid and convincing.—Quill's Window. By George Barr McCutcheon. (Nash and Grayson. 7s. 6d. net.)— A rather disagreeable story about an impostor of the most objectionable type, who, thanks to the unsatisfactory nature of the heroine and to the author's shadowy conception of the hero, is allowed to impose himself upon the reader from start to finish, decidedly to the detriment of any possibly pleasant impression which the book might otherwise have produced.—The Secret Adversary. By Agatha Christie. (Lane. 7s. 6d.)—Miss Christie has not quite succeeded in maintaining the level of her first novel. Though the mystery in this story is extremely involved, the experienced reader will have no difficulty in detecting who is the real criminal long before any of the characters have the slightest inkling of the truth. The book is full of breathless excitement and escapes, and would be an excellent companion on a dull railway journey.—A Sours Comedy. By George Stevenson. (Lane. 7s. 6d.)—This is a frankly Roman Catholic novel and is written for the purpose of describing the conversion, or perversion, of an English clergy- man. Mr. Stevenson, however, contrives to make his novel interesting in itself, and the pictures of life in a Yorkshire village with a tyrannical " Squircss " are excellently and entertainingly given.—The Seventh Wave. By Tickner Edwardes. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d. net.)—A story of Sussex with a converted vagrant as the hero. The first part of tho book is good reading, but the author has not succeeded in convincing the reader of the possibility of the foundation of the Church of the New Commandment ; still less can he believe in the final destiny of the heroine and Leonard Daunt.
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