HEIRS APPARENT. By Philip Gibbs. (Hutchinson. 7s. Gd. net.) Sir
Philip Gibbs is more at home in describing conditions and events which he himself has witnessed than in fiction. For this reason his present book, Heirs Apparent, is not nearly such good reading as The Middle of the Road, in which he took his hero through France, Germany, and Russia, describing the problems and conditions in each country. Heirs Apparent deals solely with the sexual and social problems of post- War English people in good social circumstances. Sir Philip Gibbs has nothing new or specially interesting to say of these, and the book, though written with his usual charm and facility, is lacking in distinction. It may be doubted whether it is in good taste to describe a recent cause ceMbre combining fictitious personages with authentic facts. Yet, owing to the author's mentality, this is the only part of the story which really grips the reader's attention.
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