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Youth Wins. By Muriel Hine. (john Lane. 7s. 6d. Net.)

—A comedy of manners staged in a French watering-place and containing two elderly ladies—one delightful, the other most unpleasant. The ron.ance of Joceline Verney and Oliver......

Fiction

PROLTST.-4. PRUDENCE and good nature have been keeping me quiet: about Proust. A year ago some twenty or thirty or forty English novelists and critics rose to adore him. Mr.......

Other Novels

The Rasp. By Philip Macdonald. (Collins. 3s. 6d. net.)—A most entertaining and ingenious detective story. It would, however, have been more original if the authors had refrained......

Seducers In Ecuador. By Miss V. Sackville West. (the Hogarth

Press. 7s. 6d.) Miss SACKVILLE WEST has broken out into a new manner in this little book. Instead of her full-length dramatic and rather old-fashioned novels, we get a slim,......