SOME RECENT FICTION.

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 140, 8 March 1919, Page 11

SOME RECENT FICTION.

"The Year Between." ■"The Year.Between," by Dorjs Egerton Jonos-(Cnssell. and Co., perS. aim-- W. Mackay), - is a story ivhieh is bound to find 'high favour with lovers of sentiment. The .'heroine, -Jnn Ellice, '.' the "Little BuslrFlownr," is the.girl-wife of a clever but drunken mining cn r giiiecr-in cluirge-of a mine in tho West Australian backblocks. " Ellice dies, as the result of an accident, and ill tho belief that his marriage with Jail has been a bigamous-one, the woman, who had en-, trapped him into marriago when.lie'was yet n mere, boy being alive. Tho young widow is befriended by a very fine fellow: much her elder, who takes her to his friends in Adelaide, and falls deeply in love with her, Tho war comes, and the guardian-lover goes.'to Egypt and Gnllipoli. A cousin, who had marked hi hi down ,as-his legitimate prey; now makes'sad mischief/ intercepting and destroying letters sent to Jan, but when John -Bores? 'ford returns from the front,.'wounded mid. .full of honour,-several grave misnnderr, standings aro cleared up, niid : .'tho end is 'everything tlio average novel-reader could, fain have .it be. Jan is a delightfully -fresh and lovable heroine, and her giwx dian if." just tlio forceful, ever-faithful, .lover, who is so ■ perennially popular n figure in this class of fiction. ..The local colour of tho earlier sienes : is convincing, and tho war incidents dramatic, but not overdone. A capital story of. its kind.