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THEIR TRADITION. By Guy Rawlence. (Constable. 7s. 6d. net.)—A Wiltshire country house is the point of focus of this pleasant but not very exciting novel—it is the villain of the piece, in fact. Loyalty to the beautiful, pocket-emptying old place is the ruin of the Challenge family. One daughter breaks away : one son disregards his responsibilities as future heir to the crumbling estates. But the honour and integrity of the incubus-like place is strictly guarded by aged Aunt Alicia, and it is only when in a final attempt to preserve the old order of things she comes by her death that the rest of the family can give up the futile task of behaving like rich gentle- people on the income of the impoverished genteel and rid 'themselves of the beautiful, stately house which is at once their glory and their curse. The character of Aunt Alicia is admirably drawn : she is far more real than the other, rather shadowy,. characters.
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