1 OCTOBER 1927, Page 19

This Week's Books

DURING the past month the books" most in demand at the Times Book Club have been :— FicrroN.—The Kingdom of Theophilus, by W. J. Locke ; Gallion'S Reach, by H. M. Tomlinson ; Lady What of Life ? by Leslie Storm ; The Way Things Are, by E. M. Delafield ; Our Mr. Dormer, by R. H. Mottram ; Lucia in London, by E. F. Benson ; Young Orland, by Herbert Asquith ; Three Wives, by Beatrice Kean Seymour.

Nox-Frenori.---The Letters of Gertrude Bell, edited by Lady Bell ; The Journal of Katherine Mansfield, edited by J. Middleton Murry ; The Top Drawer, by " One Who Was Born In It " ; Sea Escapes and Adventures, by " Taffrail " A Great Sea Mystery, by J. G. Lockhart.