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DOOMSDAY. By Warwick Deeping. (Cassell. 76. (id, M. Warwick Deeping

has followed his mise en scene of country inn with a novel about a farm bearing the discoura ' "-name of " Doomsday." The plan of -the book is to contrast empty, worldly life of Mary Viner, the heroine, who makes mercenary marriage, with the laborious struggle of A . Furze to extract a living from neglected Sussex land. Deeping is more at home when writing about farming t when attempting to describe the doings of smart subur -The best chapters are the first, in which the sordid exped' of life in a temporary village on a building estate are set fo in an amusing way. The book is long, detailed, and wri with great sincerity. The various sections do not, howel hang together very well, and the end is not particula successful.