The Last Lord Avanley. By Gerald Maxwell. (Mills and Boon.
6s.)—If the reader can once believe in the extraordinary physique of the "last Lord Avanley," the book becomes easy to read and interesting. It must be confessed, however, that it is difficult to credit that a personage who is equally distinguished for high character and intellect could possibly be born with the face, and apparently the figure, of a wild beast. It is also unlikely that Lady Avanley, the mother of this unfortunate personage, should, if she wished a young proteges to marry her son, have included as a member of the household a very charming and good-looking young man. Surely it would be patent to every observer, as it is to the reader of the bock, that Millicent, the protigee, would fall in love with the handsome young man and not with the repulsive Lord Avauley. But the story, if incredible, is readable, and in some parts exciting.
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