NOVELS FROM CASSELLS
; ■■.• A : niixed parcel. of novels for. winter evening> reading ■ is. received from Casspll and C0.,-London. .First is..".Secret Places," iby.' Joan ■ Sutherland; •.'!. A British diplomat leaves .his /papers? to woo au: ultra-modern girl..His first look shocks-. heiC out -of her youtlif ul sophistication. Murder^, and self-sacrifice are ingredients -in the story,.and f'Hamlet" is played over■'. again to' .clear-; an innocent' man's name.j Once -more love is triumphant..,;/: > '■'■■■': \ ■■;',/.
/.■■.•"Moulded: in Sand" is a Simple yet delightful ( story by B.v Scotland ■. Liddell. After, .forty years! work ■in a foundry, John Munro- finds the f one romantic breaki which realises his lo.nged for,dream—a ,wife and /'a house in the country with; a, garden.!' The author tells the, story with,a .fine feeling for, words; and draws his characters, with realism; '.—V- •'-.':■:■■■■ .J - *-.:■■■'■■■':■: ■: ■' •'.'•
"Beating Wings"., is .by; Robert W. Chambers, and .'there is always . the charni^of the unknown about his'novels. One never knows what he is going to write about:,next. : In '.'Beating Wings" he, deals, with the modern' girl. ;' He makes .pi Essie ;Lessing an appealing heroine, the .daughter of , a chorus girl and a comriiereial' traveller. . Essie grows to womanhood lacking parental control. But ■ the ■ innate decency of (he; girJj aided by. tthe :influcrico of JohnWestall, years older; than herself, and wise in-the .'.waysi of women, carries:', her. through) in 1 the battlo of life: in .New -York. \. .•"■■ ;■'■ ■-. ' ' ■: ■ ■- ■■ :■:■ .'." ;
'. ,"So»: of John," by Edith1 •Arnndel, .is a .'w'eil'Writteni-iipvel,: a; story of here-, dity, of wonderful- love between father arid son; .. -~-;■ :i-- ■■;■■ ■ ■••'■. •■'.•.■■■
"Spring, Dust" is by Olive -Wadsley, and tellst about Charles, Reval, the 'unwanted son of Chloe.Carew.' He imag-, ined lie was :jth.e,. son iof , the ■ German, hairdresser.-, of. Paris who had adopted him. Butjis; staggered to leavn that he is; really,-related .to the Carows of England, and, : also to find, later, that: he,is: : the rightful. : heir to:money. That Charles should,fair hi love, and propose marriage, was :exactly what, a worthless young woman intended. ,He soon lued his choicer But he finds, ultimate happiness with- Carol, a charming 'ijirl, his griuij sturdy manliness, stand-; ing him in .good stead.when" .hi s v^ifo's infldolity is proved to him. .The novel is, well, ■written.;,. .;" ■". ""'"."'.'■■ ;' '}.'
NOVELS FROM CASSELLS
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 21
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