5 MAY 1923, page 22

Black Oxen.*

Tins is a monkey-gland story. The heroine recovers her youth in Vienna with quite incredible success ; and, by com- bining an almost girlish beauty with the experience of sixty......

Our Earth Here. By Dolf Wyllarde. (hutchinson. 7s. 6d. Net.)

Some twenty short stories of " life " (particularly of the passion by moonlight type) in the West Indies, Aden, Devon and elsewhere. In the stories of remoter setting Miss......

The Reprint Of A Sententious Story, Well Padded With Wads

of moonlight and magnolia, oxide of chromium, pretty acts of charity and queer aesthetics. A poet (who describes poetry as "perfecting the expression of ideas by putting them......

Fiction.

DRAWING ON CAPITAL.* Thu eighth layer of the earth (Rosicrucians held) preserves in type all flowers and animals that become distinct in species and everything that man shapes......

In Spite Of The Constant References Of The American...

to Miss Edna Ferber's short stories being comparable to those of 0. Henry, the appreciative reader of her long novel, The Girls, will open her present volume with hesitation. It......