2 SEPTEMBER 1922, page 23

Japanese-american Relations.

THE well-known Japanese publicist, Mr. Iichiro Tokutomi, the editor of the Hokumin, says in his preface to Japanese-American Relations (Macmillan, '7s. net) that the book, of......

Fiction.

AN OLD TESTAMENT RELIGION.* THE critic's difficulties really begin when he proceeds to review a new novel. The deep-seated cause of these difficulties affects him in two ways.......

A New-world Tone Poem.*

The Lay Anthony is a fable told with an intensity of expression and emotion that is more usually found in the lyric or in musical composition than in the noveL Of the broad......

Huntingtower. By John Buchan. (hodder And Stoughton. 7s....

Buchan's new novel is by no means intended to be taken as seriously as The Path of the Sing. Dr. Johnson said of The Beggar's Opera that " it was written to amuse," and......

Other Novzr.s.—the Hidden Force. By Louis Couperus....

T. de Mattes. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. fid. net.) The distinguished work of Mr. Couperus has now become familiar to English readers through the excellent translations of • The Lay......