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Mr. Noel Coward's New Play, Post Mortem (heinemann, 5s.) Is

not his best, but it is his most important. For the first time the seriousness which has underlain much of his comedy finds expression in something more direct than satire. The......

Fiction

Fresh Fields Pitiful Dust. By Vernon Knowles. (The Bodley Head. 6s.) THE shadow of a preceding book generally inclines to lie upon its successor, and this is especially true in......

A Library List

ITALY AND HER INVADERS. By Thomas Hodgkin. New edition (4 vols.). (Oxford University Press. 42s.) GOD AND MAMMON. By J. A. Hobson. ( Watts. is.) Mx EXPERIENCES IN THE Wom.ri......

The Fascinating Volume, Entitled A History Of Spelsbury,...

by Miss Elsie Corbett (Long Compton, Shipston on Stour : the King's Stone Press : 6s. 6d.) is the work of .the local Women's Institute, which won the prize offered for village......

Shall We Ever Learn That Prevention Of Disease Is Not

only more humane than attempts to cure it, but also cheaper ? Here is an instructive contrast drawn by the Salford Women Citizens' Association in their very useful survey of......

An Historical Trilogy

The Magnet. By Maxim Gorki. Translated by Alexander Bakshy. (Jonathan Cape. 15s.) THE first volume of Maxim Gorki's historical trilogy, published last year under the title......

Current Literature

THE titular superlative in The Five Hundred Best English Letters, selected and edited, with an Introduction, by the First Earl of Birkenhead (Cassell, 8s. 6d.), sounds arrogant,......