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The Baseless Fabric. By Helen Simpson. (heinemann. 7s....

uncanny situations. They are not ghost stories, but often they are much more frightening. The intangible atmosphere of dank woods, old houses and the downs can sometimes affect......

Other Novels

Treading the Winepress. By Ralph Connor. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—To a retired naval, officer and his son settled in Nova Scotia there come accidental visitors in a......

Fiction

VARIOUS. HEROES The Professor's House: . Cather. - •(Heinerriann. 7s. 6d. net.) - - (Elkin,Mathews, - 7s. -6d.,ne . t..)' - i Fon all its formlessness theie i s a fastidious......

Growth In Expenditure.

But while this is true, and while it is impossible .yet to dogmatize with regard to the position to be disclosed by Mr. Winston Churchill at the 31st of March next, it would be......

Bread Of De Zeit. By Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. (hutchinson. 7s.

ed. net.)—Mrs. Belloc Lowndes seems to have hesitated between making her story a melodrama or a tragi-comedy of manners, with the result that neither has quite come off. The......

Finance —public And Private

NATIONAL ECONOMY AND FOREIGN • TRADE BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. LARGELY by. reason of , the incidence of taxation, the National Accounts at the end of the 81st December usually show a......