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BLOWN BY THE WIND. By C. A. Dawson Scott. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d. net.)—Novelists often would convince us' that life in the Pacific islands. or in Cornwall, is much more red-blooded, language mulch balder, and love much more wholehearted than ever in Hammersmith or St. Albans. If they do convince, it is only momentarily ; and certainly the bucolic passions of Mrs. Dawson Scott's hero and two heroines are almost ingenuously ordinary. The hero has a tiff with, his, pretty sweetheart,. and marries on the rebound a.pale- dark woman who hot only cannot cook-but who irritates him profoundly, and deteSts his trio:tiler,' a-gipsY -lasS married to a respectable elderly farnier. - He returns, Of course, in' the
end.to first love. - . 1Chese. _Cornish rustics_ in any ,case are onlyhalf-genuine the rest is Mrs. Dawson" Seat and her glOWing, goOd-natUred pen. The sweet-smelling hero, his ghoulish little wife and his' robust sweetheart are likeable, and superficially quite probable, save for the fact that they are seen in so romantic a light and talk such: deliberate dialect: It. is in the setting and the picture of: _Ooruitik: farm and cottage domesticity that the chief charm of Blown by the Wind lies.
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