SOME NEW NOVELS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 114, 10 November 1934, Page 24

SOME NEW NOVELS

LIGHT READING FOR ALL

Novel's by ■Alice?Grant ■, Bosman< hWo a very wide circle of readers, and a: #ordial aveicpme -will bet extended;to her latest/ if' Somebody; Mustj'ifwhich"'is' published i byl/?Hodder ">. arid ■; '■ Stoughttm.' This : yis yr6'men6e!j < certai^y^v-.r£iiUj I V^.fif i ihuniour and .delicious; digs at life as it really is lived .tbdayi :; Orid puts down VSomebody Must"'with';the;same'sort of feelingthat'rcriiainsafteiya, delightful weekend with; entertaining people. Somebody must stay at home, and :lp6ki after Master Pell when, mother takes the bit in ..her. teeth and: goes'* off ? to' Scotland, -• without warning,-because, -as, James himself admits, she andjlie have made' ''undisciplined -fools >>j-of ■thehi-, selyesi!■'■'-■;'And somebody must.face up! to father,1 who must be .wrong,', or mother wouldn't have gone: away.' ,/Somebody; inust> face ,a" mpnthful of; iinconifortable probiemsi.'.sSomebody Imust 'make■;'': jap; somebody's -mind .- about.;,D,erek, ]'^ ■AH readers"' Wilir'love1 "■■ Kay 'i3ri6te*'as slio. battles.with- th© troubles ;iof?-runnihg: her father's house on' the banks of the Thames Another story published by Hoddor and Stoughtou which can be couhalb lccommended is "Mr. Fmchley Dis coveis His England," by "Victor Can ning "Swallows m Spiingtime," fiom tlie same publishers, is a veiy modern story by Mary Stuit It deals with a doctor's family in which the children aie giowing up and becoming eagei for m dependence and a lite of then own The peieunial problem is complicated by the gulf that the war has made be twecn the older and jounger geneia tions The triangle in "Earthquake in the Triangle," by Lewis Gibbs (Dent), it. not the "eternal" variety, but is the little triangle of middle class houses which surveys unmoved the outward cataclysms such as the General Strike of 1926". . Readable romance is provided by Dorothy Lambert in "Independence" (Collins). JThoso who want an excit ing sea story had better read "The Ship in the Fanlight," b> W Tow 1 end The lives oi stcclwoikers form the background of "The Hero's Wife," a dramatic story by Richard Stain Tho last two novels mentioned are pub hshed by Herbert Jenkins. Each of the four' following stories provides high speed , adventure in plenty: "Cappy Ricks Comes Back," by Peter B. Kyne (Hodder and Stough ton); ''Robber's Roost," by Zanc Grey (Hodder and Stonghton); "The Trail Of Danger,'" by William MacLeod Rame (Hodder ana Stoughton); and "The House of the Dragon," by Trevor Moiony (Herbert Jenkins). > , A tno of murdei mysteues is: "Masks Off at Midnight,' by Valen-j tine Williams (Hodder and Stoughton);' "Shot atjDawn,' by John Rhode, and "The Diamond Ransom Murders"; the last two being Crime Club pubhea tions. '