"Neath Burmese Bells" (Fisher! Unwin) by Ella M. Scrymsour is laid in Rangoon and is a story of revenge and hate. Wade Jordan, an unscrupulous Englishman, is the subject of blackmail and ruin at the hands of a relentless Burman, Palik, whose wife he had once wronged. Malise Raeburn comes to Rangoon with a theatrical troupe and there learns that she is not English as she had been-brought ap to believe, but part Burman. she ceases to struggle against the ruin and death. Sylvia Maturin, Little English "country rose," although she is a relief from the other wicked characters in the book, is insipid and seemingly with Wittle <force' of character. The book leaves. the reader with a vivid sense of hate, horror and destraction in spite of the fact that: Sylvia and her lover leave for England, triumphantly united after all their trials.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.