The Gift of the Gods. By Flora Annie SteeL (W.
Heinemann. 2s. net..)—The scene of this novel is laid in the Highlands, ground not unfamiliar to Mrs. Steel, but not so attractive as the usual Oriental setting of her stories. The present little book is a study of temperament, the final surrender of the rather stiff-backed heroine, Margaret Macdonald, to the courtship of the fascinating but irresponsible "Man from the Sea" being finely conceived and dcforibed. The reader's sympathies will be largely enlisted on the side of Margaret, and he will be almost inclined to lament he
final defeat by the ill-health of her little boy. Nevertheless the sale of Westray, although to a most unpleasant specimen of the newly rich, is much the best thing that could happen for all the personages of the story.
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