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RED EARTH. By Jane England. (Cassell. 7s. 6d. net.)- This

book, though it has the almost inevitable signs of imma- turity belonging to a first novel, gives a very vivid description of a girl in a farm near Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, whose father has married a Boer woman. The loneliness of a South African farm and the difficulties which have to be contended with are well portrayed, and the heroine is an attractive figure. The plot is rather weak, but the author writes with considerable mastery of her medium.