SOME RECENT FICTION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 269, 7 August 1920, Page 11

SOME RECENT FICTION

A Bundle of Reprints. Seasonably-priced reprint editions of novels of proved popularity ave mow than ever welcome in these days when pho increased cost of produotion! pre.Trents new novels being published At the old-time "colonial edition" price. Recent arrivals include Mr. Archibald Marshall's "Rank and Riches, "the concluding story of the "Clintons" 6eries (Hodder STid Stoughton). . Tho story brings the good old squire of Kencote and his family face to face with vastly-altered conditions of life from ' those described in "The Squire's Daughter" and earlier volumes of the series for its period is that of the earlier years of "The Great War." Mr. Marshall shows iishow wefl the country' gentlemen of England faced and did their duty. (N.Z. price ss. 6d.) From Mr.' John Murray comes a neat little new edition of Mrs, L. Allen Barker's pleasantly r tbld. story, "The Ffolliotts.'.pf Redm'arley."' . The author, of thaf delightful story, "Jtiss Esperance and Wycherley" and "Mr. Wychcrley'sWard" is at her best when describing the pranks of jolly English youngsters and the young folk: in this particular story-iri fully as entertaining as those of the earlier novels. .(N.Z. price 2S. Gd.) A recent addition to Nelson's. Library (fiction section) is "Head 'Waters," a collection of eight powerfully-written stories by a clever. American writer, James B. Connolly. Several of them, notably "Tho • Trawler,'' the realistic pictures of the North Atlantic in which Tecnll those' in Kipling's "Captains Courageous," deal with tho sea. Central America is the scene of others. ill are vigorously written and eminently original in motif, and very readable. In "When We Are Rich" (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., per Australasian Publishing Co.), Mr. Ward Muir, whoso excellent short stories,- "Adventures in Marriage," were reviewed in these col- : ivmns recently, 'gives'lis' a series of amusing pictures of Bohemian life in London and elsewhere the principal ' figures teing > young- journalists,- poets,' and artists, with a snrinkling of the fair sex from the world of the. theatre. Some of the l pranks ' and escapades of ..these, young people' may recall. to I readers of the older generation memories of Murder's "Vie de. Bohenie." The scene- alternates Miveen London and Switzeland. The fun is fast and furious, not to say a trifle extravagant in its exuberance, and there is some very sprightly dialogue.' (N.Z. price 2s. Gd.) Review copies of the above per Whitcombe and Tombs.