7 OCTOBER 1916, Page 31

READABLE Novnt-a—The Smiler Bunn Brigade. By Bertram Atkey. (Hodder and

Stoughton. 2s. 6d. net.)—The Day of Wrath. By Louis Tracy. (W. and R. Chambers. 3s. Gd. net.)—These two books are both concerned with the escape of parties of English people from Ger- many in August, 1914. The adventures are equally thrilling in both books, but the characters in The Day of Wrath are more sympathetic.