Winter Wheat. By Almey St. John Adcock. (Faber and Dwyer.
7s. fid. net.)-Although this is a country story, it can by no means be called idyllic. The first chapter opens with the heroine, Nancy Fallow, running with a shiver through a spinney in which she had once found the corpse of Enoch Unthank hanging. The whole Unthank family, with its cripple twins and the strange old mother, is, with the exception of Jason, decidedly uncanny. The motive of the story, the hatred orNaney for 'her betrayal by...Tasdn;iStiotquiterredible.- But for the Strange complexes revealed by psycho-analysis, it would be difficult to believe that a woman would through fear marry the father of her child and at the same time pose as a widow and conceal from him that the child is his. The whole note is sombre and inevitably the book ends in tragedy. It is, , however, powerfully written, and Nancy stands out as a figure full of vitality.
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