TIIE PANTHER. By Gerald Bullett. (Heinemann. 7s. 6c1. net.)—An interesting
story of ultra-modern courtship and age-long problems of marriage. The married pair, the Pendrooks, part because the novelist-husband is unfaithful. There has been lack of sympathy on both sides. The younger couple, Garth and Virginia, embark on an irregular union to find that it possesses most of the disadvantages of matri- mony and some peculiar to itself. Like most of their -con- temporaries these people are almost brutally frank, and discuss anything and everything pertaining to their own feelings and actions.
Virginia is an interesting creature, well drawn. Garth is — like .the heroes of 'Mist- novels of this type—more of a dummy. It- is true of them, as of all the characters, that they have no- life of their own apart from the attributes allowed them by the author, who, however, is generous. The story ends with marriage for the lovers and recon- ciliation after tragedy for the Pendrooks.
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