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OTHER NOVELS

Susanna. By Hilton Brown: (George Allen and Unwin. 7s. ad. net.) A detailed and highly-finished portrait of a modern woman in three phases of life. Susanna as a girl in a Scottish middle-class household-the scene opens at a typical highly_diVerting. -Later she- marries the ne'er-do-well of her circle and journeys with hitn to a coffee Plantation in Mysore. Her last development when, tired of her husband's sparkling egotism, she tries life " on her own," does not carry conviction to the reader, and the end is mere melodrama. The book As pleasant reading and the heroine an attractive creature. -