25 JULY 1925, Page 47

Swift Adventure. By Jane Cardinal. (George Allen and Unwin. 7s.

6d. net.)—The reader will believe from the first pages of Swift Adventure that he is about to embark on a long industrial novel. He will be wrong. After the temporary, though fantastic, change in identity between the hero and one of the junior members of the clerical staff of his own office the book develops into frank melodrama, and adventures follow each other breathlessly through its pages. It is, however, very good melodrama, though the author's views on the ethics of the employers' attitude towards strikes are distinctly crude.