23 JUNE 1923, Page 19

Middle Mists. By Aishie Pharall. (Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d.)

The heroine, returning. to England after some hectic months of Peace-Conference Paris, marries, without passion, a flawless specimen of the English Gentleman, and spends the rest of the book wondering if she shall leave him and return to Paris to her artist in love-making, who by now, though she knows it not, has received the necessary legacy and is searching for her with intent to marry. How the problem resolves itself will be clear to earnest readers of fiction. The book opens quite well, but the heroine's indecisions lose value with long-distance repetition.