Snrta—By Oven Rutt London, 1926, Fisher Unwin, The story of the white man, who, the desolation loneliness of a fusgle station, surrenders to the custom of the country and takes to himself a native "housekeeper;" and of the wife he later marries from his own people, who discovers the Blemish in her' husband's earlier carcsr—all this is no new theme— except, perhaps, for every new-\ecmer to the East confronted with similar temptation. Mr. Owen Rutter has chosen it ior his first novel, as distinct from his general igs 02 native life, and has certain. ly handled it well There is a reality, distinct from crude realism, in the story of Denis Prothero, of Kamo and of Dawn, which gives it a good place in the ranks of problem novels. At the same time the pages which are in tone way merely accessory to the main drama are really the most attractive. The account of the feud Hie ud subsequent native rising aad of ow Prothero dealt with them is wonderfully told; also the career of a district officer in Borneo, the ap: rolling isolation in which he haz to work, the manner in which it may break down his nerve. The life of chansted at Hawiek—now Tam rested gud" much Letter ay (the great spaces of the Empire is romantic enough: but it is in these
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