KING LOG AND LADY LEA. By Alyse Gregory. (Constable. 7s.
8d.)—There is an undoubted quality about Miss Alyse Gregory's work, but it is a little disturbing. As we try to disentangle the psychological and emotional relationships between Richard Holland, Mary his wife, and Celia, who was one of his early loves, we find ourselves thinking " how excellent ! " and then " how ridiculous ! " At times we come near to understanding the ineffective Mary, who fumbles so helplessly at life and who tries in an inarticulate way to retain her husband's affection while Celia is visiting them. The early chapters are full a tense situations. It is all very involved, however, and full of shilly-shallying sentiments. The book ends in tragedy, but
we find it difficult to mind how it ends a great pity, since it began so very well and is excellently written.
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