2 JUNE 1928, Page 31

NO ARMOUR. By John Dailey. (Long. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Dailey, a

leading Australian journalist, has written an en- grossing first novel. The hero, Robert Arbister, is a successful Sydney business man who, during his wife's absence on a visit to England, has an affair with a chorus girl. The end is tragedy for the girl and a reconciliation between Arbister and his wife that is too sentimental to be convincing. We can, however, forgive Mr.. Dailey this one weakness ; for his story as a whole is not only exciting. but presents (what we have rarely had in fiction hitherto) a vital and obviously true picture of social life in a modern Dominion city.