25 DECEMBER 1926, Page 18

This Week's Books

FICTION.—Show Boat, by Edna Ferber ; Goodbye, Stranger, by Stella Benson ; Great Short Stories of the World (Heinemann); IVigger Heaven, by Carl Van Vechten ; The Black Knight, by Ethel M. Dell ; Galahad, by John Erskine ; Northing Tramp, by Edgar Wallace ; The Smuggler's Cave, by G. A. Birmingham. There has been a revival of interest in Bears Geste, by P. C. Wren (published over two years ago). NON-FICTION.— Palmerston, by Philip Gueclalla ; In Black and White, by Viscount Knutsford ; Memoir of Henry Chaplin, by the Marchioness of Londonderry ; The Road to the Tcmple, by Susan Glaspell ; Secret and Confidential, by W. H. II. Waters ; Mr. Charles, King of England, by John Drinkwater ; Certain People of Importance, by A. G. Gardiner ; Chit Chat, by Lady Augusta Fane.