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The Magazines

THE most outstanding contribution to the magazines for January is " An Educational Survey," consisting of four articles, in The .Nineteenth Century. The articles are " The Need......

The Kerrels Of Hill End. By Charles Landstone. (murray. 75.

6d.)—Here we have a novel which is important not for the sake of its plot but because of• the numerous clear character studies contained in it. The Kerrels are a Jewish family......

Fiction

Sects, Conscience and Romance AT the moment the mainspring of the greater part of American comedy is, what the Americans themselves would call a " nationwide " sensitiveness in......

Windlestraws. By Phyllis Bottome. (collins. 7s. 6d.) —in...

book, Miss Bottome tells of the very remarkable experiences of a girl, Jean Arbuthnot, who goes as secretary to a beautiful woman, living in a large country house. She had been......