29 DECEMBER 1923, Page 20

VIRGINIA. By Carlton Dawe. (Ward, Lock and Co. 7s.) The

story of the beautiful lady who has a brute of a husband and of sheer boredom goes to a night-club, and causes a riot, from which she is rescued by the bronzed colonial. Their innocent intrigue follows the usual lines. Her husband dies and Virginia suspects her prospective lover of murdering him, but eventually they are married and seek a new life together in a land designated by the author as " the Never-Never."