READABLE NOVELS.—The Matchmakers. By J. E. Buckrose. (Hodder and Stoughton.
I's. net.)—A most humorous story dealing with life in the village of Little Pendleton. Its perusal will furnish an excellent antidote to the worries of the war.—The Background of Battle. By Dell Leigh. (Same publishers. 2s. Gd. net.)—Sketches of hospital life and other matters at the beginning of the war.—Grace Lorraine. By Douglas Sladen. (Hutchinson and Co. 6a.)—The story takes place • Ilatelalayt. By Lthel Sidgwkk. London =pick and Jackson. EOM in the 3-car 1914, but, except for the departure of one of the characters to France, the war is the last matter which occupies the reader or the characters.—Till the Clock Stops. By J. J. Bell. (Hodder and Stoughton. 2s. Gd. net.)—A melodrama full of alarms and surprises.—
Out of the House. By M. E. F. Irwin. (Constable and Co. 5s. net.)--A London story of modern life before the war. The book has a quaint old-world flavour. The characters would have figured appropriately had the date been a hundred years ago.
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