THREE RE-ISSUES

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 67, 16 September 1922, Page 17

THREE RE-ISSUES

"Jan and Her Job," by L. Alien' Harker; "Barlasch sf the Guard," . { by Henry Seton Merriman; snd "Bunch Gfrass," by Horace Annesloj Vachell, all published by John, Mun-ay, Lo^|on, ha,ye ljeen received from Meßßj's Wiiitcombe and Tombs. They are new reprints in handy form, and at a low price of novels of some years fig<>—"Barlasch" as far back aa 1903. v ''Jan" is the story of one who, saw her.duty and did it. The novel carries the reader to India, and is NanarkaWe for the'aqr ■curacy of description of things seen, done, and said on board a liner, and of life in India shorn of iiueh pf. the romance usually associated therewith.! but its charm i^ the clever development of the character of a good wpman. "SaTr lasoh" will be re-read with pleasure by those who years ago'firsJ made, hi? aei quftintance. He is ainbst entertaining personage, one of the very best of' Henry Seton ! Merriman's creating. "Bunch Grass" is an acceptable collec-^ tion of stories of life in the wild west of America,, where the cinema camera has found so much to focus oa, It is all healthy "open-Hif stuff," 'and, although not like i"Quinney's," or" "The IJill," will be very welcome reading to both those who have read it once and those who will read ..■ it for the first time.