Of Shropshire Folk, With A Background Of Actual Scenery, A
very liberal garnish of dialect, and photographs of houses and towns. The result ought to be curiously vivid ; but we fear that that intention has not been fully realised. One......
The Corner - Stone. By David Lyall. (hodder And...
second time within the last few months we are called on to notice a novel dealing with the effect of a family house "in the old country" on newly returned Australians. In this......
The Sovereign Power. By Violet A. Simpson. (smith, Elder,...
Co. 6s.)—Miss Violet Simpson's last novel, " The Bonnet Conspirators," was a graceful and amusing story, perhaps a little slight, but well put together. Her present book, The......
The Great Proconsul. By Sidney C. Grier. (w. Blackwood And
Sons. 6s.)—It is difficult to imagine what induced Mr. Grier deliberately to throw " this book into the form of fiction," and then as deliberately warn the " ordinary novel......
C Cirrent Literature.
METHODS OF SOCIAL ADVANCE. Methods of Social Advance. Edited by C. S. Loch. (Macmillan and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—This book consists of a set of papers by various authors, four of......
The Earthly Purgatory. By L. Dougall. (hutchinson And Co....
of quite a different stamp from that which belongs to the historical novel distinguishes this story of Northern Georgia. As the book is practically a " murder story," it is......
The Way Of The Sea.. By Homan Duncan. London :
Hodder and Stoughton. f6s..] but bow much it is all a literary pose ! The knowledge of the sea, like knowledge of deserts and high mountains, comes only to those who have taken......
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