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The Seventh Gate. By Muriel Harris. (cape. 7s. 6d.) —the

opening scene of this very queer novel takes place in the house of Doctor Risaleur, a celebrated anthropologist, who is visited by Catharine Troon, who has been impressed by an......

Fiction

' THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES. By Andre Gide. (Knopf. Os.)—We have here a novel which is written in the form of a diary, kept by a woman during the days of her engagement and married......

Achieved Such A Sensational Success A Few Years Ago. Like

its predecessor it describes the terrible flood which Over- • whehns half Europe in a night, killing off and Scattering the population, and leaving only small Wands of land in a......

The Magazines

The Nineteenth Century contains first a fighting analysis of "The First Socialist Budget," by Sir E. Hilton-Young, followed by "The Tragedy of Palestine," by Lord Sydenham of......

A Prosperous Voyage

Hammersmith Hoy. By Nigel Playfair. (Faber and Faber. Sia NIGEL PLAYFAIR calls his memoirs "A Book of Minor Revelations." It is partly an autobiography and partly an account of......