OMER NOVELE.—Elinor Calwuse. By Stephen Hudson.- (Martin Seeker. 5s. net.)—A
study of a penniless American beauty of doubtful antecedents, who captures in her toils a young Englishman of good family. The characterization is vigorous, if crude, but there is little else in the book to redeem the ugliness of the story or to compensate for its unsatisfactory conclusion.—The Day of Small Things. By Mrs. Evan Nepean. (John. Bale, Sons and Danielsson. 8s. 6d. net.)—This book shows a departure from Mrs. Nepean's accustomed vein of historical romance. A child grown up describes her childhood on the Suffolk Border, and though the story is written objectively it is obviously autobiographical in. origin.—The Crimson Blotter. By Isabel Ostrander. (Hurst and Blaokett. 8s. 6d. net.)--Miss Ostrander's latest detective story will be a dis- appointment to many. It is, paradoxically, more obvious and less convincing than The Twenty-Six Clues, for instance, and although it undoubtedly has its moments of excitement, even these are marred by an unnecessary extravagance.
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