My Canoe. By Maurice Chenu. (scholartis Press. 7s. 6d.) The
narrator's adventures with four companions o canoeing trips down French rivers are described in a serf of short stories with enough zest, humour, and pleasan artificiality to......
The Magazines
In the Nineteenth Century for April the article most deser% of notice is that by the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, a ve outspoken and an overdue examination of the plight o......
She Might Have Been Margaret. By Phy Hambledon. (sampson...
7s. 6d.)—Here is the sod affair of Mr. David Garrick with Peg Woffington a tively dressed and prettily staged by the " La I and Fie! school. But was Mr. Garrick quite the snob......
New Novel's
THE SCREEN. By -Ann Stokes. (Benn. 7s. 6d.)—A higld resourceful study of the relationship between a fat and his daughter who is aware he has committed crime passionel. The......
No Sign-post Anywhere. By Elizabeth Hughson (hodder And...
6d.)—A simple, since rather dull, " railway journey " story of an Oxfo undergraduate who is forced to renounce the Co fisher girl he loves owing to a startling discovery.......
The Concave Mirror. By W. B. Maxwell. (hein Mann. 7s.
6d.)—The effects of a fortune on a happil married couple—the wife takes a lover—are intimatel revealed by the diary of the husband. Clever, sensitis and slightly sentimental in......
Unknown Lands. By Blasco Ibanez. (thornton Butter. Worth....
romance of two lovers who, fleein persecution, sailed with Christopher Columbus, is mad negligible by the magnitude of the occasion. Historicall accurate but uninspired.......
Mr. Cardonnel. By H. C. Bailey. (ward L 7s. 6d.)—the
cavalier who comes to England secret agent for Charles II and who rescues a Puri maid from the royal clutches is a stock figure, one Wardour Street's great gentlemen."......
Fiction
Five Excellent Novels brose Holt and Family. By Susan Glaspell. (Gollancz. 7s. M.) e Delicate Siivation. By Naomi Royde-Smith. (Gollancz. 7s. M.) HEN, before we are quarter way......
Roads Of Peace. By Ganpat. (hodder And Stoughto 7s. 6d.)—the
publishers say this book " shows us India that is and the way out." The author says, " In might go forward safely and hopefully so long as the nil of the road—the clear......
I Sit Alone. By Waldemar Ager. (harpers. 7s. 6d. Tedious
subjective outpourings of a Norwegian immigrao who sits alone in a shack in the Middle West and wri the history of his childhood and of his unhappy ma '......
Highland Fling. - By Nancy Mitford. (thornto Butterworth....
dreary extravaganza of th post-Waugh school. (The conception is infantile, execution (at its best) undistinguished.) The Brigh Young People cut familiar capers in the Gothick No......
1111. Fleet Hall Inheritance. By Richard Kevern...
thriller in a new manner. Altho the author allows us to follow the movements of th detected as well as the detecting, any solver of th problem may well take off his hat to......
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