10 JANUARY 1931, page 25

The Magazines Tim Nineteenth Century For January Begins...

unpub- lished sonnet by George Meredith to Labouchere; which is not one of his best. Sir Herbert Samuel gives some sensible reasons why we should support the alternative vote in......

Fiction

Too Much Broth A FAIR general criticism of these three very competent novels would be that they suffer from excess. The authors are evidently anxious not to leave out anything,......

Miss Selina Poole And Miss Henrietta Melbury. It Was In

Mr. Texeira,:s handwriting. Henrietta, before my trembling fingers had torn it open 1 knew the worst." If you like this sort of thing, here is a great deal of it, well above the......

Lucky Dip

This little book, beautifully produced, would be worth every penny that is asked for it if it were printed on the cheapest paper and in a sixpenny binding. Nothing I have read......

The Gladiator. By Nicolai Gubsky. (elkin Mat- Hews And...

'is. 6c1.)—This is a sympathetic study of the emotional development experienced by an introspective young Russian Civil Servant under the old regime. He falls P O R T ABLE in......