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Governor Smith And Mr. Hoover

ANY book appearing at this moment which begins with intimate biographical studies of Governor Alfred Smith and Mr. Herbert Hoover would be welcome to English readers. Mr. Oswald......

Charlotte Lowenskold. A Tale Of Modern Sweden. By Selma...

(T. Werner Laurie. 10s. 6d.) —This idyllic story by the distinguished winner of the Nobel prize for literature has the fresh flavour of wild strawberries. There is something of......

The Following Feet. By Norman Venner. (heine.. Mann. 7s....

title is taken from The Hound of Heaven. Oliver Honey, who has been treated badly by the War and worse by his family, finds himself freed by the death of his sister, with a......

Fiction

COMFORTLESS MEMORY. By Maurice Baring. (Heine- mann. 6s.)—The bitterly ironical situation presented by Browning's lyric, " A Light Woman," is here elaborated into a piece of......

The Background Of Theology

IN this stout volume Dr. Tennant gives us a first instalment of the material which he considers necessary to those students of theology who wish to make sense of their special......