5 MAY 1928, Page 30

MADEMOISELLE DAHLIA. By Pamela Wynne. (Philip Allan. 8s. 6d.)—We first

see Delia Browne as a small girl, living in poverty at Biarritz with her mother, whose husband has died in India. In order to assist the family fortunes, and

bn particular to help her adored brother Tim, with his eautiful voice, Delia at sixteen becomes a golf caddie and loses her passionate young heart to the strong, kindly Jim Chester, whose clubs she regularly carries. Love eventually wakens in Jim, too. But there are many difficulties and adventures before Delia at last holds the hand of her husband Jim as she listens to Tim, the great new tenor, at the Albert Hall. Of its own sentimental and melodramatic kind, the story is pleasantly effective.