2 JANUARY 1926, Page 33

OTHER NOVELS

All Fools Together : a Bucolic History. By Charles Forrest. (Coffins. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is a first novel of something more than promise. The scene- is. rural England during the Napoleonic Wars, and the prineipaLebaracters are a cunning miser and his twec..§ons, the one huMorous and reckless, the other cold and tenacious. The elder of the two Suffers a term of penal servitude; and. returning finds his -brother their father's partner. A family feud; springs up, reaches its climax in the father's insanity, and finally dissolves in laughter. It is a powerful and Inoiing.story; and its many subsidiary characters illustrate Very forcibly the Manners and customs of the time.