NEW BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16263, 13 July 1918, Page 7

NEW BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.

—: * ' | "Mulberry Springs," a new publica- ' tion in Unwin's ''First Novel 'Series," gives ..promise that in its author, Mar- ! garet Storrs Turner, may be found a very'capable new novelist. "Mulberry (Springs is a health-resort, eager to become established and fashionable. To i it comes Marie-Louise Hyrst, the cultii vated and far-travelled daughter of an eccentric poot. In his poetical and unconventional way, he nas left MarieLouise without funds, so she accepts the position of official entertainer, under the temporary and official name of Sirs Hillyer, and all goes well until _ the guests evolve tho idea that she is a disguised and runaway Princess Priska Vranjavitch. From that momcntj -all at Mulberry Springs flirt, flaunt, and intrigue round the supposed princess, while Marie-Louise, unaware of the mistake, grows immensely puzzled, and at last still more angry, when it is suddenly ascertained that she cannot be Priska Vranjavitch, and therefore must be condemned as an impostor and adventuress. Tho slight plot is hardly enough, perhaps, to furnish out so long a novel, Dut the .construction is clever, and "'Mulberry Springs" does not suggest an amateur pen (London, T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd.;. "Martie the Unoonquered," by Kathleen Norris, is the story of an American girl in typically American surroundings. It begins with the picture of her homo life, with that of other girlsj her friends, in the newlygrown town of Monroe, California. They, too, were growing young things, yet set in narrow ways, where the chances of love and marriage seemed the one opening for any soul expansion. How romance mot with one or another, how Martie desperately took life into her own hands, and married, against all the family codes, a actor —this makes the first part of the tale, which continues her history through married life, motherhood, and widowhood, before it leaves her dedicating herself solemnly, joyfully, to the claim of the years ahead. Ten years ago she might have said that at twenty-eight the best of a woman s life tfas over. Now she knew that she had only begun to live." (London, Murray's Imperial Library; Chnstchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs.)

A Zionist convention at Pittsburg has disclosed the fact that the Jewish Legion of 8000 now with the British Forces is fighting for the complete conquest of Palestine (says a Washington massage to the Australian papers) The plans are to increase the force to 80,uuu, so as to provide a national standing army for the coming Jewish republic. Every Jew -enlisted in the Legion from America is pledged to remain in Palestine for the remainder of his life. \