29 MAY 1926, Page 28

A Candle in the Hills. By I. F. Grant. (Hodder

and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.).—England after a Red revolution is the subject of this novel, in which the Comrpunist Government is represented as almost purely evil. The sfbry of the counter- revolution, which restores the powers of the Crown, is well told ; but as "a-whole this is not a-eonvincing story.