MISCELLANEOUS FICTION

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 138, 13 June 1931, Page 19

MISCELLANEOUS FICTION

'"■ "Beauty and the Boasts" (Elkiii Mathows and.Marrot) is tho title of; a collection of short stories by ■ C.harlos Woodington. There is clover treatment of character in many of them, and they range through the dramatic and pathetic to tho humorous.' One gives a picture of an aerial city of the future. Those stories make' excellent reading for the odd half -hour. \

Pure adventure characterises "Beyond the Hill," by A. C. G. Hastings (Herbert Jenkins). Two years with the Foreign Legion, an escapes into Morocco, and an alliance with tho Berbers against tho French, are the three main episodes in the hero's career. "The Lilac Maid," by A. A. Thomson (Herbert . Jenkins)-, is called on the jacket a fragrant romance. It tells with somo humour of a damsol of a hundred or more years ago who marricd> not in accordance with the wishes of her aunt. A pleasant light story. Tho ..Western adventure novel has been attempted with some success- by Noll Bhipman, who is not unknown to screen patrons. She calls it "Zeeka of tho North" .(Collins), and tells a story of bears and adventure which is as good ;as most arid bettor, than some of the same kind. ■■ .. V ..■', The, disappearance of a young professional guide to English' tourists in Paris, and of a pretty girl gave Inspector Barraud a problem to solve. How he did it is told, in "The Jackdaw Mystery," by Francis D. Griorson (Collins), the Jackdaw'being a mysterious personage and not a bird, unless perhaps a gaol-bird. .'. . ■ ■ ~ The power of heredity is the theme of "A Lonesome Road," by Frances Moeatta (Herbert Jenkins), the psychological aspect being relieved by humour; "Bullets in tho Sun," by Robert _J. Horton (Collins), is a tale of life in a town on the edge of tho wild, where gamblers live by their wits and where tho one who shoots first wins. " The Roses of Crein" is a romance of 500 years ago, the scene being laid in NoVt'liorn Franco. This is ;.a stirring t'alo by Beryl Symons, the publisher being Herbert Jenkins.