7 MARCH 1925, Page 27

Tile Flame in the South. By Luke Hansard. (Hutchinson. 7s.

6d. net.)—The reader's hopes Win be excited in this book by finding Mazzini, Garibaldi, and Louis Napoleon among the dramatis personae. Unfortunately, however, though the novel is occupied with the political doings of these dis- tinguished persons, it :somehow misses being as interesting as it ought to be, considering the date, of the first section. This fiilure to attract is probably because the period treated of is too long ; the author, -not content with dealing -with the hero's early campaigns, tLes him as .anold man to the Piave front, where he is killed. The first two " Books " of.the story may, however, be thoroughly recommended to amateurs of the period from 1849 to -Garibalas victory over the Kingdom of the two Sicilies.