This Is A Pleasant If Not A Brilliant Novel In
which an enter- prising advertisement agent, an attractive (female) artist, an aesthete, a bogus siren and a sinister lunatic called " Beech " all get in each other's way.......
Tesha. By Countess Barcynska. (hurst And Blackett. (is.)
The confessions of an ex-première-danseuse who "went wrong" for the sake of having a child. It reads like a trans- lation of a nightmare from a foreign language. A little common......
The New Magazines.
The Nineteenth Century. The July number, which is very readable and deals with a great variety of topics, opens with a vigorous article on "The Bolshevist Inferno," by Captain......
The National.
The Duke of Northumberland prints his address, delivered at the London School of Economics last month, on the question : "Will the ape and tiger ever die ? " His purpose was to......
Without Justification. By Mrs. Victor Rickards. (jonathan...
It is unfortunate for the lady in this novel that the love of her life and her most eligible parli should be intimate friends, as it leads to so many explanations and......
The Hopeful Journey. By Beatrice Kean Seymour. (chapman...
7s. 6d. net.) It may be questioned whether Mrs. Seymour is wise in choosing so large a canvas for the exercise of her delicate art. A novel which begins in the year 1853 and......
The Fortnightly.
Mr. John Bell and Mr. John Leyland discuss the Ruhr problem, the one from the French and the other from the German standpoint. Mr. Bell, writing from the Ruhr, is convinced that......
Miss Harraden's Last Story Deals With The Ambitions And...
of professional musicians. Truly they would seem a class apart, tiresome lovable children of genius, their moral nature undermined by envy, their hearts warmed and their tempers......
Diana Was A Native Of Hoxton. She Had Three Lovers—a
sculptor, a dilettante, and a fanatically religious Scotchman—all of whom she steadfastly refused to marry. This is Mr. Hutton Mitchell's first novel, although he is well known......
The Contemporary.
Sir Alfred Mond contributes an able and lucid article on "The Financial Situation and Capital Levy," explaining clearly why a levy, such as the Labour Party places in the......