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Fiction

HARMER JOHN. By Hugh Walpole. (Macmillan. 7s. Gd. net.)—Anyone who has read The Passing of the Third Floor Back or any of its numerous offspring will fear the worst when a......

The Sport. Of Kings. By Ralph Nevin. (methuen And Co.

16s. net.)—Glorious things have been written of the British Turf. Nobody minds the scorn of the deliberate, i.e., affected, " highbrow " and the real intellectual is as likely......

--the Dominions And Colonial Offices. By Sir G. V. Fiddes,

G.C.M.G. (Putnams. 7s. 6d. net.)—The Colonial Office, as we are accustomed to call it, has now its volume in these publishers' useful series of Departmental histories. Sir......

Current Literature

A PENSIONER'S GARDEN. By Lord Darling. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d.)" Crescit in orbe doles ; or, to speak English, the dole augments daily . . . . " that is an example of......

A Naturalist At The Zoo.: By E. G. -b - Ouleng,er....

10s. 6d. net.)--Here ,.a:: most entertaining book, amtone which will appeal as stronsfy.tO the Fellow who knows the cagestiont behind and in friint, as tolheschool child making......

From All The Earth

The New Republic suggests that all may not be well with the Ford industry. " No one else can yet sell a car quite so cheaply as Ford. But others can sell as good a car so close......

Thucydides : A Study Dt Historical Reality. By G. F.

Abbott. (Routledge. 7s. 6d. net.)-:---Mr. Abbott's elever and thoughtful essay on Thucydides is much to be commended. Macaulay said long ago that the Greek his- torian could not......