1 FEBRUARY 1930, Page 22

Some Books of the Week

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

Now-FreTrox.—An Introduction to Italian Painting, by Sir Charles Holmes ; Open House in Flanders, 1914-18, by Baroness de la Grange ; The Stricken Deer ; or, The Life of Cowper, by David Cecil ; Russia To-day and Yesterday, by E. J. Dillon ; The Endless Adventure, by F. S. Oliver ; Captain Scott, by Stephen Gwynn ; The Gay Victorians, by Ralph' Nevill.

Frerrow.—The Lost Child, by Rahel Sanzara ; Hudson River Bracketed, by Edith- Wharton ; Children of the Earth, by Ethel Mannin ; Vile Bodies, by Evelyn Waugh ; Retreat, by C. R. Benstead ; Step-Sisters, by Isabel C. Clarke ; The Whistler's Room, by Paul Alverdes ; Inspector Frost in the City, by H. Maynard Smith.