READABLE Novms.—Further East than Asia. By Ward Muir. (Simpkin, Marshall,
and Co. 6s. net.)—A story of a mysterious tribe living in an island in remote Eastern seas. This is visited by the hero in search of a mysterious drug. In the end:the islandisengulfed by an earthquake, and the exceed- ingly attractive woman Sultan drowned.---Open, Sesame, By Mrs. Baillie Reynolds. (Skeffington and Son. 6s. 9d. net.)— A series.of short storieselealing with the war. The scene of most of them is laid in. England, but, one, " Her Final Choice," deals with thouplands of Rumania, and contains much picturesquelocal colour.—The Audacious Adventures- of Miles McConaughy. By Arthur D. Bowden Smith. (Same publishers and price.)—A series of sea stories, in which the adventures dealing with the Senussi are the most interesting.—The Locust's Years. By M. Hamilton (Same publishers and price.)—The story of the marriage of a very clever woman_to a man many years her junior. It does not. take the course which the reader expects, as it is. the elderly wife, and not the young husband, whose love• does not stand the- test of matrimony.