OTHER NOVELS. —Saint Teresa. By Henry Sydnor Harrison. (Constable. 8s.
6d. net.)—The women in Mr. Harrison's books are always distinguished by a strong individuality, and " Saint Teresa "—unlikely saint !—is no sort of exception. The story has to do with big business in America, and is as interesting in detail as it is concentrated in plot. Midnight. By Octavius Roy Cohen. (Nash and Grayson. 7s. 6d. net.)—America is sending us a quantity of detective stories just now. Midnight, which opens with the discovery of a dead body in a taxicab from which the live fare has mysteriously disappeared, will keep the reader 'well amused, more especially if he or she is able to enjoy a good dose of Americanisms.—The Enchanted Canyon. By Honore Willsie. (Thornton Butterworth. 7s. 6d. net.)—An attractive story of a young New Yorker, who starts life in a gambling hell and ends as Secretary of the Interior. His struggle, as boy and man, to escape from the shadow cast by his beginnings is the mainspring of all the action, and the two moans by which escape is finally effected—Diana and the enchanted canyon— provide romance and adventure.—The Son of the Otter. By George van Schaick. (Hurst and Blackett. 7s. 6d. net.)---People are inclined to blame the cinematograph for stimulating "juvenile delinquents." They would be right in blaming it for producing an inexhaustible stream of Wild West novels. These have, it seems, two possible plots and one impossible hero. Lately the North of Canada has evolved a cousin germane to this type of novel. The Canadian hero is usually a misunderstood man who, after long contact with ice and Indians, finds his " higher " self. Of The Son of the Otter we can at least say that it is quite good of its kind.
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