1 DECEMBER 1928, Page 21

Some Books of the Week

DURING the past month the books most in demand at The Times Book Club have been :—

FICTION :—Orlando, A Biography, by Virginia Woolf ; Silver Thorn, by Hugh. Walpole ; The Crouching Beast, by Valentine Williams ; The Pathway, by Henry Williamson ; What is Lore, by E. M. Delafield ; Portrait of a Spy, by Temple Thurston ; The White Crow, by Philip Macdonald ; Ten Years After, by R. H. Mottram.

Nox-Ficrmis :—Daisy, Princess of Pless, by Herself ; Letters of Empress Frederick, Edited by. Sir F. Ponsonby ; More Famous Trials, by the Earl of Birkenhead ; Charles James Fox, by John Drinkwater ; Letters of Katherine Mans- field, Edited by J. Middleton Murry ; Life and Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia, by Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden ; Wellington, by Oliver Brett ; Jottings from an Active Life, by Colonel Weston Jarvis.

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