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Eaclef—mr. Er's Particular Type Of American Humour

will not, of course,- appeal to - everyone.- Indeed, there are 'many readers who find American slang as difficult as if foreign language. The most amusing parts of How to Write......

The Blue Shirts. By J.j.j. (simpkin Marshall, Hamilton...

7s. 6d. net.)--The Blue Shirts who play a part in an English revolution about ten or twelve years hence are a' mixture of the O.M.S. and the Fascisti. The story is full of the......

Ragnarok. By Shaw Desmond. (duckworth. 7s. 6d. Net.) This...

is another specimen of the awful warnings against the future world war; but Mr. Shaw Desmond, although he ruthlessly wipes out European civilization, leaves hope for the Neiv......

Mr. Allen. By Horace Annesley Vachell And Archibald...

_ and StOughtiii: 7e. 6d. net.)—It is decidedly amusing to try to disentangle the secrets of the dual authorship of this book. The ingenious reader will find few traces,......

Uprooted. By Brand Whitlock. (appleton. 7s. 6d. Net.)-l...

clever and discerning novel provides in the dramatis personae a complete " cast ' of cosmopolitan Americans. -These are cleverly sketched, though of familiar types. We have, for......

The Perennial Bachelor. By Anne Parrish. (heinemann. 7s....

Anne Parrish relates the history of a family, easily and with flashes of small beauty, denuded of the absolute truth of = Mr. 'Huxley's small pen pictures because more romantic,......

Two Or Three Graces And Other Stories. By Aldous Huxley.

(Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d. net.)—One of Mr. Aldous Huxley's characters in Two or Three Graces, the first story in his new volume, detects. by some instinct or self-conscious',......

Lectures : _ In London Wedne Sday, June 9th. .5.30 P.m.—tam

PiaLosormc BASHI OF HINDUISM. By PrbfeSSoir - Ridliikrisliniui. The first of a course of three 'public lectiiies - Under - the auspices Of the British Institute of Philosophic:......