READABLE ]Aovms.—Iiivisible Tides. By Beatrice Kean Seymour. (Chapman and Hall.
7s. net.)—This is a first navel, and, though it contains some excellent pieces of writing, the author has not yet complete command of her material. The return of the heroine to her •husband after the presumed death of her lover is unconvincing, and the future .of this ill-assorted pair fills the reader with the utmost.foreboding.----Children of No .31 an' 8 Land. By G. B. Stern. (Duckworth. 7s. net.)— A remarkable book dealing with the hard late of Germans brought up in England and possessing purely British sympathies. The boy hero, whose father has forgotten to naturalize him, is a tragic -figure as he watches the approach of the eighteenth birthday which is to send him, not to the trenches, where as a horn fighter he lon to he, hut to virtual imprisonment in an internment .camp,.—The Old Contemptibles. By Boyd Cable. (ilodder and Stoughton. 5s. net.)—A series of stories of the front in the first days of the war. The sketches are 'written with force and directness, and ,give a -vivid picture of the events deacribed.
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