NOVELS FOR THE LIGHTHEARTED

ONCE more we hope to earn our readers' gratitude by giving them a kind of lightning review of the publications of the year which are specially fitted for holiday reading. If we dwell more on the more recent books than on those published before Christmas it is not because the proportion of good stories Was less in the autumn, but because the holiday reader, having read steadily through his Christmas and Easter vacations, has probably exhausted the 'earlier publications. On the whole, the crop of this type of light novel has been very plentiful this year and, to adapt an old phrase, the books mentioned may all be said to be " though not among the great, yet quite among the good." The names of the volumes are under their appropriate headings, and in issuing the list we offer our readers our best wishes for a pleasant summer holiday.

(1) SENSATIONAL DETECTIVE STORIES AND MELODRAMA.

The Mystery of Angelina Frood. By R. Austin Freeman. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.) The Fellowship of the Frog. By Edgar Wallace. (Ward, Lock. 7s. 6d.) The Painted Honeymoon. By Sidney Hastings Webb. (Sampson, Low. 78. 6d.) The Wrath to Come. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)

(2) DarEcriva STORIES (Iarmtenv).

Anna's. By C. Nina Boyle. (Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.) Upstairs. By Mrs. Victor Rickard. (Constable. 7s. 6d.)

(3) COMEDIES OF MANNERS.

Coml. By Compton Mackenzie. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.) An Octave. By Jeffery E. Jeffrey. (Leonard Parsons. 7s. 6d.) The Dogs of Want. By Lucas Malet. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) Temperamental People. By Mary Roberts Rinehart. (Hodder and

Stoughton. 7s. 6d.) (Short Stories.)

The Gay Intrigue. By Jack Kahane. (Grant Richards. 7s. 6d.) Some Men and Women. By Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) (Short Stories).

The Farthing Spinster. By Catherine Dodd. (Jarrolds. 7s. 6d.) A Saturday Life. By Radclyffe. Hall. (Arrowsmith. 7s. 6d.) Utter Happiness. By Frank Bevil°. (Arnold. 7s. 6d.) Ashmorlands. By Winifred Boggs. (Herbert Jenkins. 7s. 6d.) Red Heels. By Margery H. Lawrence. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) Madonna and the Student. By Isabel Neilson. (Jonathan Cape,

• 7s. 6d.)

The World We Live In. By Algernon Cecil. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) Hirelle. By Henrietta Leslie. (Leonard Parsons. 7s. 6d.) Married Alive. By Ralph Straus. (Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d.) (4) ROMANCE AND FANTASY.

Colonel M-, A Romance. By Arthur Fetterless. (Blackwood. 78. 6d.) The Alarm. By John Rhode. (Geoffrey Bles. 7s. 6d.) People, Houses and Ships. By Elinor Mordaunt. (Hutchinson/ 7s. 6d.) (Short Stories.) Beau Geste. By Captain P. C. Wren. (Murray. 7s. 6d.) A Life's Ambition. By Alexandre Dumas. (Stanley Paul. 7s. 6d.) Abishag. By Alexandre Arnoux. (Thornton, Butterworth. 7s. 6d.) The Dark Gods. By Lady Dorothy- Mills. (Duckworth. 7s.- 6d.) The Isle of -Ghosts. By Shaw Desmond. (Duckworth.- 7s. 6d.) Pietro the Garibaldian. By Anna Maxwell. (Leonard Parsons. 7s. 6d.) (Continued on page 1059-) (5) COUNTRY STORIES.

Linden Lea. By Edward Bucknell. (Williams and Norgate. 7s. 6d.) rhe Next Move. By Mrs. He Dudeney. (Collins. 7s. 6d.) Tales of the Troubles. By Lord Ernest Hamilton. (Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d.) frisk: (6) STORIES OF INDIA, AFRICA, AND THE FAR EAST. WU Little Brown Baby. By Peter Blundell. (John Lane. 7s. 6d.) The Soul of China. By Louise Jordan Miln. (Hodder and Stough.

ton. 7s. 6d.)

The Ex-Gentleman. By Thirza Nash. (Jarrolds. 78. 6d.) (7) STORIES WITH A SOUTHERN BACKGROUND. Spanish Sunlight. By A. R. Weekes. (Constable. 7s. 6d.) (8) STUDIES IN REALISM.

Children of the Night. By W. B. Maxwell. (Thornton, Butterworth. ' 7s. 6d.) (Short Stories).

Tenement. By John Cockburn. (Blackwood. 7s. 6d.) Crusaders. By Arthur Patterson. (Thornton, Butterworth. 7s. 6d.)

(9) AMERICAN STORIES.

The Green. Bay Tree. By Louis Bromfield. (Fisher Unwin. 75. 6d.) The Avalanche. By Ernest Poole. (Nash and Grayson. Is. 6d.) West. By Bryher. (Jonathan Cape. 4s. 6d.)

(10) SToBrEs ABOUT Russia.

Valentina. By George Scott. (Geoffrey Bles. 7s. 6d.) The Red Mass. By Valentine Williams. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6(1) (11). THREE GERMAN STORIES.

The Ninth of November. By Bernard Kellerman. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.) The Nightingale. By Marjorie Strachey. (Longmans. 7s. 6d.) Masterful Wilhelmine. By Julius Stinde. Presented to English Readers by E. V. Lucas. (Methuen. 7s. 6d.)