21 APRIL 1923, Page 21

Old Crow. By Alico Brown. (Nash and Grayson. 7s. 6d.

net.)

Although in her last novel Miss Alice Brown does not convey so delicate and elusive a charm as she dd in The Wind Between the Worlds, Old Crow is written with a care and finish to which the hardened novel reader is unaccustomed. The scene is laid in New England, and the group of characters comprises figures both from the intellectual world of Boston and from the country people of Wake Hill, an upland district of farm and forest. The book, with its touch of mysticism and its admirable characterization, deserves to be read with close attention, while the tragedy of Tira is almost too poignant in its hopelessness for those people who resort to fiction for relaxation and recreation.