SOME RECENT FICTION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 185, 1 May 1920, Page 11

SOME RECENT FICTION

"The Red Signal," It would seem that every American novelist nowadays must write a -'war ■ story, and not all of them have their scenario in France. In "The Red Signal" (Lippincott-s, per Whitcombe and Tombs), Grace Livingston Lntz relates tho extraordinary experiences of a delicately nurtured girl w r ho goes as a com-panion-help to a German farmer's family, and discovers and thwarts a deep-laid and dangerous Hun plot. The story possesses an incidental love motif which will be duly appreciated by many of its readers. Ethel Dell in Small Dosss. The title story, in Miss Ethel Dell's new book "The Tidal Wave and Other Stories" (Cassell and Co., per Whitcombe and Tombs) has for its setting a seaside village where lives a beautiful youug lady of mixed Spanish and American parentage, for whose affections an artist, for whom the heroine' acts as model, and an honest young 'fisherman are rivals. Volcanic passion, desperate jealousy, and deeds of heroism are all reflected in the story, which, with its follows in the same volume, should be greatly to the taste of those who like their fiction of a full-blooded' sentimentality. "Green Rust." A German doctor, who . poses as a Dutchman, is the chief villain in Mr. Edgnr' Wallar/s highly sensational story, "Green i Rust" (Ward, Lock and Co., per Whitcombe and Tombs), thn plot of which turns upon a diabolical Hun conspiracy, to destroy the; whole wheat crop of America, India, and Australia (Germany having first amassed gigantic stocks of grain), by mean's of a diseaso called green rust. The German doctor, who has a, wonderfully gifted scientist in his pay, is finally outwitted by a clever young American detective. The scene of the story is laid in London of the present day. and an agreeable sentimental interest diversifies its sensational' incidents. •