2 OCTOBER 1926, Page 39

CHILDREN OF THE MORNING. By W. L. George. (Chapman and

Hall. 7s. 6d. net.)—The late Mr. W. L. George's book stands midway between The Blue Lagoon and Orphan Island. Here again children are cast up on a desert island to grow up and love. But, in addition, this is also a treatise on some -rather indeterminate theory of civilization in parable form. The children begin to form a new social order. But reading about • their groping's after religion, morality and so on is not very interesting nor does it lead to anything more than an extremely enigmatic sentence at the end of the book.