READABLE NOVELS.—A Variety Entertainment. By Sophie Cole. (Mills and Boon.
7s. 6d. net.)—A series of sketches of which the link is that they are supposed to have been told to a small literary society called "The Stick-in-the- Muds." The two first stories are the best. —Half-Costs. By Holloway Horn. (Coffins. 7s. 6d. net.)—Chinese life seems to have a great attraction for novel writers of to-day. This book is concerned with the visit to London of a youth who is the son of an English father and a Chinese • Green Apple Harvest. By Melia Kaye-Smith. London : Cassie'', [88, ed,j mother. The various problems which confront the half-caste are cleverly described.—Affinities. By Mary Rinehart. (Hodder and Stoughton. 8s. 6d. net.)—A series of American • stories of undeveloped flirtations. "The Family Friend" is the most amusing.---Catherine Herself. By James Hilton. (Fisher Unwin. 8s. net.)—A first attempt by a young writer who takes for his subject the study of a girl of the middle class who becomes a pianist. The publisher's note that the author is only eighteen is really superfluous, considering that towards the end of the book the author causes his heroine to reflect : "I an twenty-four years old and my life is over." Mr. Hilton may be glad to hear that life is not over even at that advanced age, and he will have plenty of time left, even in six years' time, to perfect himself in his art.
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