16 DECEMBER 1911, Page 23

RizanssLs Noveza.—Firs and Flint. By Mrs. I. O. Arnold. (Alston

Rivers and Co. 6s.)—The story of the fortunes of a danseuse and incidentally of an author.—Margaret Harding. By Percival Gibbon. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—A powerful illustra- tion of the race problem in South Africa in which we have a pathetic central figure in a Kaffir youth who, educated in England, has lost touch with one race and not found it with the other.— Penny Monypenny. By Mary and Jane Findlater. (Smith, Elder and Co. 6s.)—Pen, the heroine, is a fine creature ; but lest we should be too cheerful in following her fortunes we are chastened with the perverse Lorin; but it is a good story.