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Firmer Than Facts

War with the Newts. By Karel Capek. (Allen and-Unwin. 7s. 6d.) This book is so distinct from current fiction that it is worth special consideration. It belongs to the same kind......

We, Uncle James

I ASKED one 'of the authors whose work is discussed in this book whether she " wrote as a woman." " Certainly nnt," she answered indignantly ; " I write al a human being." It......

A Practical Man

MR. BURNETT has written what will probably remain the standard life of Paul Gauguin. No one else is likely to add to the facts he has collected, and probably there are no......