"The Road Side Fire" (Leonard Parsons, 75. Gs.) is a_love-affair of mental or spiritual basis; udeey Deane realized that! such was the nature of the love that, propinguity, cold, and boredom had aroused in her at the "Help for} Poland Mission" station in the snow-bound, primitive village Hiskow in the Carpathians, she fled from Stephen Morris, her fellow. worker.. She realized that when he was not kissing her—he was nothing but a hard, selfish intellectual. Miss Madeline Linford must be congratulated upon having written one of the most realistic love episodes in recent fiction. Her persuasive style, her sense of character, her light touch upon the keyboard of life, her} gift for dealing with emotions unemotionally, her sense of proportion and environment have enabled her to weave a very perfect novel out of a very difficult subject. The setting, interest that, like well-woven could almost stand alone, 'When an author causes the heroine! and the villain to take turns in the story of a mysterious crime, in the! first person singular, that' auth takes short cuts through the tech que of adopted this original but dangerous! method in her novel, "The Man in the Brown Suit" (The Bodley Head, 7s, Gd). Fortunately, the heroine, Anne Beddingfield, is such a charm: ing, dashing amateur detective that Imost come to believe her! amazing story of how she followed the mysterious "Colonel""—the great crime organizer—from London to Johannesburg and in the startling, adventures which befell before she captured the world-criminal, The settings and the South African local colour are so well done that they sive this novel a value that is quite independent of its crime thrills.
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