26 MAY 1928, Page 26

TREVY THE RIVER. By Leslie Reid. (Dent. 7s. 6d.)— There

is always a fantastic element in Mr. Leslie Reid's novels, and in Trevy the River this quality runs perhaps a little to seed. There is more than a suggestion that the soul of the River Trevy has entered into Trevy the Man, and if, like Malvolio, you " think nobly of the soul," this attitude is a little disconcerting. The opening of the book and the episode in which Trevy acts as a bookseller's assistant arc much more attractive than the section in which the hero is a footman. In the end the river takes its own and Trevy completes the journey, for Rivers end in the sea."