The Stronger Claim. By Alice Perrin. (Eveleigh Nash. 6s.) —Mrs.
Perrin takes as the theme of her story the effect of going back to India on a boy of Eurasian birth who has been brought up at an English publib school, and who is in ignorance of the fact of his mother's extraction. It may be supposed that with this theme the story is not very cheerful reading. It is however, both interesting and powerful, and the reader hardly knows which to sympathise with more,—the hero, Paul Vereker, or the delightful English girl whom he marries and takes with him to India. The young couple have no notion of the fact that the station to which they go, and which was once Paul's father's station, is largely inhabited by his own Eurasian relatives. The earlier part of the book, which is concerned with Paul's upbringing, first in India, and then among his father's people in England, is excellently drawn; but from almost the first page the reader foresees the necessarily tragic ending. The book, both in the quality of the workmanship and the interest of the problem dis- cussed, is a great deal above the average of contemporary novels.
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