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Through The Story By The Ex-super-criminal Anthony Trent,...

Mr. Martyn has written elsewhere. Both men display great ingenuity, and one cannot but follow the chase to the end, however preposterous some of the episodes may seem.......

Number 87. By Harrington Hest. (thornton Butter- Worth....

who like the pseudo-scientific " shocker " will find this story exciting after the first fifty pages or so. The title refers to a new element which the discoverer misuses in the......

Fair Harbor. By Joseph C. Lincoln. (appleton And Co. 7s.

6d. net.)—Captain Sears Kendrick returns home, his savings squandered, his leg broken. He is given the position of manager at Fair Harbor, an Institution for Mariners' Women,......

St. George's Guild Address. By H. E. Luxmoore. (liverpool :

The Lyceum Press.) The Master of the St. George's Guild devotes the first part Of the 1922 address to a disproof of Gibbon's statement that St. George was " a heretic archbishop......

Beanstalk. By Mrs. Henry Dudeney. (coffins. 7s. 6d....

Dudeney in her new novel writes of the passion of motherhood. The heroine, who has been the victim of a terrible accident in early youth, believes herself incapable of having......

Nobody's Man. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (hodder -and...

6d.)—It is strange to find Mr. Phillips Oppenheim choosing as his hero an earnest politician with a love for social reform. The author does not seem quite at borne in this......

The Fortunate Woman. By Eleanor Reid. (hurst And...

6d. net.)--Laura Field, the " fortunate woman " of the title, might take for herself the motto of Kundry in the last act of Parsifal, " Dienen, dienen." Her idea of happiness is......

Bahai. By Horace Holley. (kegan Paul. 7s. 6d. Net.) Mohammed

Ali announced publicly that he was the forerunner of a Manifestation. Nineteen years later Hosein Ali, a Persian prince of purest Aryan lineage, an- nounced himself as that......

Ann. By Mary (hutchinson. 7s. 6d. Net.)—this Book Is Chiefly

interesting for the character sketches of Ann and her mother, though even these are open to the criticism of being too much alike. The mother, Mrs. Sotheby, is, however, an......

The Course Of Lectures Embodied In This Book Was Designed

equally for the student of philosophy and the cultured layman. Professor Keyser deals in a non-technical manner with the main fundamental concepts employed in the structure of......

This Pamphlet Comprises The Translation Of A Lecture...

Herr Steiner more than twenty years ago. In a preface written in 1919 Herr Steiner states that the lecture without alteration embodies what he still thinks on the subject. It......

Fiction.—continued.

THE DIARY OF A DRUG FIEND. By Aleister Crowley. (Collins. 7s. 6d. net.)—This story—a true one, the preface informs us—is unsuitable for the nursery, nor would it be welcomed as......

Clair De Lune. By The Author Of Jenny Essenden. (constable.

7s. 63. net.)—In this novel the author gives us the sentimental history of an exceedingly neurasthenic musician. If the subject had been treated from a psychological point of......

Philosophy And Religion.

Beside the impressive biographies of Sargent and Dr. Smith Miss Padwick's modest " life " of the great missionary is analogous to Wordsworth's violet. Nevertheless, her book......