OTHER NOVELE.—In London. By Conal O'Riordan. (Collins. 7s. 6d. net.)—Two
novels by Mr. O'Riordan, Adam of Dublin and Adam and Caroline, have recorded the earlier adventures of the hero, who was introduced to us in the first as a newspaper boy in the streets of Dublin. In the present novel Adam, who has developed into a particularly malignant example of the clever young man, descends upon London during the War, and obtains with ease a lucrative position on the stage. The author might have made an interesting psychological study of the effect on the hero's mind of the shoddy commercial play in which he acts. But the opportunity is missed. It is a pity, for at least one character in the book, the boy's guardian, is drawn with remarkable insight. Had he been the central • Storm Postage. By James Hilton. London : T.Flaher tinwln. Lis. ed. oeti figure In London would have been something better than the rather lifeless tail of a trilogy.—The Much Chosen Raze. By Sydney A. Moseley. (Stanley Paul. 5s. net.)—This occasionally amusing book has as little right in a novel review as a cuckoo's egg in a linnet's nest. The author attempts to do for the Jews (his aim is less sinister than these opening words would suggest) what Mr. T. W. H. Crosland did for the unspeakable Scot. There the comparison ends. The Much Chosen Race is at times satirical, but it is more often rude.—Career. By Dorothy Kennard. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d. net.) — Miss Kennard is evidently familiar with the Near East. The reader's interest will be divided between the claims of a good " spy " story and a quasi-parody of diplomatic life on the Bosphorus.— The Mortimers. By John Travers. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—We have had a good many stories based on the reappearance of a man who has been missing. Mr. John Travers now enlarges on the theme of what is likely to happen when a missing married woman reappears. The situation is further complicated by the fact that the husband is an Indian official and by the unfounded suspicions about the respectability of the wife's career in Soviet Russia. The story is well worked out and the character of the heroine very ably drawn.
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