5 JANUARY 1929, Page 25

Some Books of the Week

DURING the past month the books most in demand at The Times Book Club have been :— FICTION :—The Case of Sergeant Grischa, by Arnold Zweig ; Jehovah's Day, by Mary Borden ; The Ladder of Folly, by Muriel Hine ; Apple Sauce, by Ina Michael ; Lord Peter Views the Body, by Dorothy L. Sayers ; The Cluny Problem, by A. Fielding ; Show Girl, by J. P. McEvor ; The Lover, by Naomi Royde-Smith.

Now-Ficriox :—Elizabeth and Essex, by Lytton Strachey ; Undertones of War, by Edmund Blunden ; My Autobiography, by Benito Mussolini ; After Thirty Years, by Viscount Glad- stone ; Reign of The House of Rothschild, by Count Corti ; Letters and Leaders of My Day, by T. M. Healy.