An Octave. By Jeffery E. Jeffery. (leonard Parsons. 7s. 6d.
net.)—The device of keeping the action of his story within the space of a single week, though attractive, has rather hampered Mr. Jeffery K Jeffery in his new novel. Rexon—a......
Coral. By Compton Mackenzie. (cassell. 7s. 6d. Net.) —mr....
Mackenzie is decidedly more amusing when he is writing on the pomps and vanities of this wicked world than in his cycle of ecclesiastical novels. Coral, although it is supposed......
Some Men And Women. By Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. (hutchinson. 7s.
-6d. net.)—Three of these eight stories have as their motive murder and suicide. The_ rest of them are chiefly concerned with less startling _sentimental ad- ventures. The plots......
Other Novels
The Farthing Spinster. By Catherine Dodd. (Jarrolds. 7s. 6d. net.)—For the second time within a few weeks a' book is published in which it is necessary to include a family tree......
Pietro The Garibaldian. By Anna Maxwell. (leonard...
net.)—A historical novel dealing with Gari- baldi's 1860 campaign. The hero is a monk attached to an ambulance unit, whose reflections and ecclesiastical adventures are not S3......
Fiction
OLD AND NEW FASHIONS The Half Loaf. By Agnes Muir Mackenzie. (Heinemann 6s. net.) THERE is little to say of The Half Loaf. It is astonishing to find so direct a story in this......
Finance-public And Private
SOME FAVOURABLE FACTORS By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. THREE important influences of a favourable character have operated upon the Stock Markets during the past week. It remains to be seen......
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