Some Books Of The Week
THE moral code of the desert Arab and his skill in inter- preting footprints in the sand or gravel are the main themes of Colonel Andre von Dumreicher's exceedingly attractive......
The Question Of Capital Punishment Is Now Before The...
and it is probable that there will be a debate on the Report of the Select Committee before so very long. Mr. E. Roy Calvert's pamphlet on Capital Punishment : the Select......
The Boat-house Riddle. By J. J. Connington. (gollancz....
solution of this riddle requires all Sir Clinton Drillield's ingenuity and all the reader's attention. But the reader will grudge none of it.......
Go Marry. By Brendan Williams. (chatto And Windus. 7s....
public and the private lives of three typists are ably presented in this unselfconscious, modern story. The title supplies a very sensible moral, which the reader will applaud.......
General Knowledge Questions
OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss E. G. Salter, 66 Lad- broke Road, Holland Park, W. 11, for the following :-......
The Three Technical Studies Which Form The First Part Of
Economic Fragments, by Junius H. Robertson (P. S. King, 10s. 6d.), are interesting as interpretations or modifications of Marshallian orthodoxy in the matter of economic......
New Novels
TIIE WEIGHER OF SOULS. By Andre Maurois. Trans- lated by Hamish Miles. (Cassell. 6s.)—A strange and macabre story of an attempt to defeat "the last enemy," lacking Mr. Maurois'......
* * Mr. G. A. De C. De Moubray Leaves
us in no doubt that he has read widely : in fact his references to authorities usually associated with Greats at Oxford are apt to become rather tedious. We are not sure,......
Fiction
The Post-War Novel The Good Earth. By Pearl S. Buck. (Methuen. 78. 6d.) By Whose Authority. By Oliver Madox Hueffer. (Berm. 7s. 6d.) The Road Back cannot be treated as a......
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