30 MARCH 1918, Page 17

READABLE Novma. — A History of Departed Things. By Mrs. Henry Head.

(Kagan Paul, Trench, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—There is a certain grace about this story of cultured people and their doings in pre-war days. But the heroine's marriage, at the end of the book, to her dead daughter's ex-fiance jars a little.—A Vision Splendid. By Constance E. Bishop. (Heath and Cranton. 5s, net.)—An Anglo.Indian story touching here and there on Hindu mysticism. The heroine is a Eurasian, and is not quite so sym- pathetic a figure as she should be to make the story completely successful.