VANITY UNDER THE SUN. By Dale Collins. (Heine- mann. 7s.
6d.)-Though it centres around an old idea-the duality of personality-this is an exceptionally original and clever fantasy. Sir George Emmet, exhausted at forty by his strenuous success in the City, is ordered to take a cruise. At Yokohania there . is an earthquake, win& causes him to 'lie unconscious- for some weeks. Awakening froin oblivion, he assumes a new identity; and as " Leiria Kingseleie enjoys the primitive freedoni and romance denied to him by his earlier London life. His adventures take him to various places in the East and ultimately to Dutch New Guinea, where he finds a wife as satisfying to the Louis in him as his respectable, domesticated Mary at home had been to the -Gebrge: Always intriguing and sometimes grim, Mr. Collins - has written a powerful-and exciting story, pleasantly relieved- of satirical humour and by admirably vivid and natural descriptions of foreign scenes.
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