5 SEPTEMBER 1914, Page 23

Angel Island. By Inez Haynes Gillmore. (G. Bell and Sons.

6s.)—The author probably intends this book as an allegory. The scene is a desert island and the personages a shipwrecked company of five very terrestrial men, who are presently joined by five women with huge wings like the

angels in Fra Angelico's pictures. The men can only capture the women by cutting their wings. The climax of the story comes at the end, when, after marriage and many vicissitudes, in which the husbands try to keep their womenfolk in their place, a boy baby is finally born with wings. What will be the result of that phenomenon only the author can imagine.