Face Cards. By Carolyn Wells. (putnatits. 7s. 6d.) —a...
in which crime and a family curse are interwoven. While the reader is prevented from divining the solution too easily, a proper number of clues are conscientiously given and the......
Snow Rubies. 'ey." Caripat." (blackwood. 7s. 6d. Net.)—...
of the English language, is considerable, but it is doubtful wheihei it can be said-to emerge. with credit from a whole novel written in 'slang. The author would doubtless say......
Oh, The Brave Music ! By Richard Blaker. (hodder And
Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is a story of middle-class business life, and though occasionally it drags a little, it is on the whole extremely well told. The portrait of the......
Those Who Destroy. By M. D. Cole. (duckworth. 7s. 6d.)
An unusual story of unhappy love. The heroine, Lydia, falls deeply and sincerely in love with a talented young man who is as egotistic as he is sensitive and brilliant. She......
Finance-public And Private
THE NEW BANK RATE BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. THE factors operating upon the Stock Markets of late have with one important exception—which I deal with in a separate article—been of a......
Fiction
CONRAD'S UNFINISHED NOVEL Oxi of the strangest figures in all English literature, Conrad, the foreign sailor who earned a European repute by writing romances in a tongue not his......
Recreations Of London .
LECTURES Oct. 13th, 5.30.—Tire BRUKAILLESCAN RevrveL, by Dr. Percy Dearmer, at Kings College, Strand. First of a course of ten on " Florentine Art in the Fif teenth Century,"......
A New Competition
THE EDITOR OFFERS TWO PRIZES OF £10 EACH, THE FIRST FOR AN INSCRIPTION FOR A SUNDIAL IN PROSE OR VERSE, THE SECOND FOR AN EPIGRAM ON WOMAN IN FOUR LINES OF VERSE. RULES FOR......
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