New Novels
• YOUNG DIANA. By Margaret Ironside. (Philip Earle. 7s. 6d.)—Diana Hotspur is proud of her family, though it is difficult to see why, for her mother is cold and unsympathetic, her father almost a maniac and two of her brothers utterly horrible. She goes to Spain as a governess to some most uncongenial and loathsome people, but stays for a year out of loyalty to her family. Half of the book describes her adventures abroad. The second half tells of her attempts to collect evidence to save her brother who has been accused of murder. One expects the book to finish with the verdict, but the author does not appear to know when to stop and concludes with three chapters about the War. Regarded purely as a story the novel has interest, but in places the writing descends to the level of a fourth form essayist.
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