ADAM'S DAUGHTER. By John Carruthers. (Cape. 7s. Od. net.)—The heroine
of this book, Jenny Brookfield, is assuredly an immediate descendant of Mr. Wells' " Ann Veronica." She is certainly not one of those incredibly deliber- ate `,! modem " girls whom less sincere writers than Mr. Carruthers steal from stage and film plays to astonish, though never convince, the thoughtless. She is a likeable and probable creature of some individuality and faces the conflicting problems of the modern young girl's career with courage and sense. Her own affairs are of less moment, however, than those of her father and his alarming housekeeper, a character with a Bronte-like grimness. Events lead -these two on to a terrible tragedy which the author has the talent to make as
stark and as incontrovertible as any bald murder report in
newspaper. . . .
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