30 APRIL 1927, Page 17

This Week's Books

Diniso the present month the books most in demand at tile Times Book Club have been :—Ficrrost. —The Old Countess, by Anne Douglas Sedgwick ; Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis; Portrait of Clare, by Francis Brett Young ; The Lovely Ship, by Storm Jameson ; The Allinghams, by May Sinclair ; The Sun in Splendour, by Thomas Burke ; The Feathered Serpent, by Edgar Wallace ; The Murder at Crome House, by G. D. H. and M. Cole. NoN-FicrioN.—Mary Ponsonby, cdited by Magdalen Pon-,onby ; Sir Richard Muir, by S. T. Felstead, edited by Lady Muir ; Land, Sea and Air, by Admiral Mark Kerr; The Reign of Hasputin, by M. V. Rodzianko ; The Memoirs of Baron N. Wrangel; James Bryce, by H. A. L. Fisher ; The Russian Revolution, by Lancelot Lawton ; Knocking Around, by Frank H. Shaw ; The Paris Embassy, 1814-1920, by Heckles Willson. There is still a great demand for Feuchtwanger's Jew Suss, and also for Colonel Lawrence's Revolt in the Desert taxi. Mr. Churchill's World Crisis. * * * *