23 APRIL 1927, Page 26

HIGH SNOW. By " Ganpat " (M. L. A. Gompertz).

(Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—This novel, which deals with the adventures of a small party of explorers in Tibet, and which describes in especial how one of their number finds in sacrifice and heroism the atonement for a sin of his youth, belongs, roughly speaking, to the " Sky Pilot " order of fiction. There runs through it a sentimental and didactic vein, and Mr. Gompertz, though he writes well, is a little ponderous at times. But his characters are real men and women ; his Tibetan scenes are obviously drawn from intimate knowledge ; and his story, if less dramatic than at first it promises to be, is _quietly pleasant and poignant.