BEHIND THE PURDAH.
"The Song of the Stare." By Alec Holmes. George Allen and Unwin, London.
[ In this Anglo-Indian novel an insight is afforded into a Moslem household. It appears to be written with intimate knowledge of the subject, and shows the difficulties which ever beset the path of 'the Eurasian girl in India and the East generally. In this story Yvonne Noel, daughter of an English father and an Afghan mother, goes to live . with her grandfather, Mongol Khan, at. Qiietta, in the belief that she is a penniless orphan. With her father's people in England sh© will have nothing to do. Pride bars the ( way of any advancement in their direction. How Yvonne, having an Afghan mother, should be a pronounced blonde is for the writer to satisfy the reader. The story is very well told, however, and it will make a strong appeal to young lady readers, to whom it is commended as thoroughly wholeepme, not -improbable, I «nd of absorbing interest.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 41, 16 February 1918, Page 10
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