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Dismiss. By Hilton Brown. (methuen. 78. 6d. Net.)

Though Mr. Hilton Brown is obviously well acquainted with Civil Service conditions in India, he does not know how to write a novel. As a report on the anti-Montagu case, Dismiss......

" The Red Queen" Is Queen Elizabeth, Of Whose Life Miss

Wilmot-Buxton writes with a great bias to the Roman Catholic religion. The story is neither a novel nor can it be taken as authentic history ; and, although it is impossible to......

In The Middle Of The Free Trade Controversy Of The

first years of this century a small boy remarked : "What splendid smugglers' stories my children will hear if Tariff Reform is passed!" The Man in the Box is an example of these......

The Best Short Stories Of 1922.*

THE modern short story, it seems, is fated to be either minutely solemn or wittily superficial, and still awaits that alchemy— humanity, humour, what vague term you choose—to......

Men, Maids And Mustard-pot. By Gilbert Frankel'....

6d.) Of the three sections of short stories in this volume the first, "Men's Tales," is unquestionably the best. The stories are told with Mr. Gilbert Frankau's accustomed......

Fiction.

MEN LIKE GODS.* Ma. BARNSTAPLE, sub-editor of The Liberal, "that well- known organ of the more depressing aspects of advanced thought," decided that he must take a holiday. He......

It Must Be Confessed That We Consider An Author Is

playing with loaded dice when he writes a detective story in which. the close resemblance between twins is an essential part. If this can be overlooked, the novel, from the......