Ringding Gelong Lama

OM. THE SECRET OF AHBOR VALLEY -- Talbot Mundy -- Bobbs Merrill ($2.00). Ommony--who knew as much about India as any white man could know--sought his sister and her husband in the Ahbor Valley, whence no man ever returned. He sought also the secret of the broken bit of green jade and of the wise old Ringding Gelong Lama, who had an Oxford degree and was found to be importing European little girls into the Ahbor Valley.

All these things were duly uncovered, with the help of the kindly wisdom of the Lama and his marvelous chela* so that Ommony found himself at the end with a mission on his shoulders--a mission as strange and solemn as any that man has shouldered. Others of his fellow-adventurers on the secret Middle Way were Dawa Tserin, intricately-wedded hillsman with the mind of a child and the saw-edge knife; Diana, epitome of canine sagacity; Maitraya, bumptious actor.

A wild, mysterious tale of India is this, sprinkled with the oriental wisdom of Tsiang Samdup.

* Disciple.