Ots The First Page Of Her New Novel, Miss Sylvia
Townsend Warner gives us the dictionary's interpretation of the word • "maggot," which is----" A whimsical or perverse fancy, a crotchet," and thereafter she proceeds to show......
Fiction
Young Men in Love. By Michael Arlen. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) 'Tins promising title is deceptive, for the book is chiefly a serious satire on old Men without love, on the sinister......
The Longest Shadow. By Jeffery E. Jeffery. (heinemann....
letter written to Philip Queste by his runaway mother was responsible for most of his troubles. In it she said, "Your own mind's workings are the only realities." But Philip's......
The Left Bank. By Jean Rhys. (cape. 7s. 6d.)- The
Left Bank is, of course, the left bank of the River Seine. Mr. Ford Madox Ford describes it at some length in his preface : the authoress does not, but she has a great deal to......
Gerfalcon. By Leslie Barringer. (heinemann. 75. Tid.)—"...
Adela of Ger has a face like a horse ! " This opening sentence of Mr. Leslie Barringer's first novel has a rather special significance, for it shows that even a boy born in the......
John Comes Home. By A. C. Thornton. (meln Ise ' 7s: 6d.y...
Storjr, by the winner Of a 1/50 Prize No Compctition, - describes- the evolution-of-a-boy-Who wins It° w ay from. humble circumstances to a successful business ition John......
Recent Poetry
Poems. By Camilla Doyle. (Beini. 6s.) Poems. By Princess Bibesco. (Bonn. HS.) IT is hard to look upon Miss Doyle's poems from the standpoint of a critic, not simply because her......
Out Of Darkness. By Kenneth Ingram. (chatto And Windus. 7s.
6d.)--Dennis Laidlaw is an anti-aircraft officer in Flanders during the Great War. Near to where lie is stationed he discovers, hiding at a farmhouse, his old college friend,......
The Death Watch. By Michael Cape-meadows. (holden. 7s....
of Stanbrook, in Suffolk, is a man in whom idealism is matched by strength of will. He has not been long in the village before he proceeds, by personal influence and public......
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