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READABLE NOVELS.—To be a Woman. By Clare Elston. (Erskine Macdonald.

is. 6d.)—An improbable story of life in London during the war, in which the heroine's rapid social ascent from the wife of a working man to the member of a fashionable " set " in Chelsea via the demi-monde seems unlikely even in wartime. The author lacks humour.—The Bright Green Snake. By M. E. Fowler. (Bale and Danielsson. 6s.)--The misad-

ventures of a beautiful girl who fell into the hands of an unscru-

• pulous doctor and nurse. Should have a great success on

railway bookstalls.