RECENT FICTION

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 19

RECENT FICTION

SELECTION OF NOVELS

A fortune bequeathed by an aunt is the snag in the otherwise smooth-run-ning courso of true love detailed in "Strange Lover," by Dorothy Lambert (Collins). _

"Under Northern Stars," by William Macleod Raino (Hoader and Stoughton), is full of excitement' and thrills, of life and adventure in blizzard-swept climes. '

Those who have previously enjoyed "Tho Saint" stories by Leslie Charteris will welcome a further addition to the series in the shape of "Once More the' Saint" (Hodder and Stoughton). . ■

A Wild West Club publication is "Back to the West," by Frank C. Robertson. Pistols and girls play a lively part in a stirring tale by an author who is an adept at this kind of yarn. A friendship between two young men, poles apart in individual characteristics, and the complications introduced by one girl, are the ingredients of a bright story of youth by Osyth Gay called "Wisdom Teeth" (Collins). Quite refreshing is the story, "Mr. Pyecroft Goes To Heaven," by -Rolf Bennett (Collins). Mr. Pyecroft was a typical suburbanite until something cataclysmic happened in his brain, and thereafter he rose to being something very different; he became, in fact, a man, and ceased to be part of a machine. ■ ■ " ■ ' . '■ -:. .

"Coloured Glass," by Innes' Hart (Rich and Cowan), is the story of the surprising marriage of a middle-aged country clergyman to a shallow, selfish, London-bred girl and of the reae-

tions of this event upon a group of relevant people. The various characters concerned, with points of view distorted by the coloured glass of their individual minds; tell the tale. " Mrs. Barry," by Frederick Niven (Collins) is the story of a mother's love for her 'only son. Mrs. Barry is the portrait of a widow reduced by force of circumstances to" earn a precarious living by keeping a lodginghouse in a drab Glasgow street. But the memory of better days is the incentive which enables, her to triumph over poverty and to give her son his chance in life.

"pandora Lifts the. Lid," by Jennifer Ames (Hodder and Stoughton), is a sentimental story of a young woman who-was. not quite sure how to go about the capture of the man who came into her life. He wanted "just a good pal," but she preferred to be a "wife." Of course in the end everything works out as it should.

"Tip-Top on a HUP (Rich ana Cowan) is a a novel by a young man just down from. Oxford,' T. P. Wood. It, tolls of the reactions of a child groining up during the war. The chiia is first seen caught up in the glamour of half-understood excitement in i 914 and growing gradually aware of the uglier side. "When his father leaves for the front and ho himself encounters a German prisoner, a deeper impression is, left on his mind. By the time the Armistice has been signed the atmosphere of England in wartime has become the natural background of his life. '.'".'■.

"Campbell of Duisk" (Murray) is a romance', of Highland life by Robert Craig. It is a family chronicle in fiction form, opening with the acquisition of the estate.of Duisk in Argyll in the eighteenth century by a shrewd and unscrupulous Scottish attorney bent 6w founding a family. It closes with the disposal of the estate at the present time by his impoverished and ineffective descendants. It shows the waxing' and waning of a Scottish family. The pageant includes generals and admirals, judges and politicians, heroes and villains, lovers and haters. With sure touch Mr." Craig gives the true atmosphere and setting of succeeding generations—so to speak, from powdered queue to cocktail. Binding all is the central thread of Duisk itself.