23 NOVEMBER 1912, Page 26

Tho Adventures of Billie Belshaw. By Mrs. George de Horne

Vaizey. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—Billie Belshaw is a clerk in an insurance office, and it is impossible to deny he is rather a vulgar young man, but his irrepressible good spirits and energy make the acootutt of his adventures entertaining reading. The hearts of Mrs. de Horne Vaizey's readers will go out to her in her account of the feelings of seaside holiday makers in hopeless rain —her description is almost too painful after such a holiday season as has recently been experienced. Altogether this is an amusing little work which shoild be very popular among frivolous readers.