10 MARCH 1923, page 20

The Luck Of The Kid. By R. Cullum. (palmer. 7s.

6d. net.) Mr. Ridgewell Cullum comes of age with his twenty-first novel of the Frozen North. He gives full measure In the matter of sensation, and has a happy knack of strong......

For France. By Morice Gerard. (odhams. 7s. 6d. Net.) "the

great bell of the castle of Fonblanques jangled The Countess shot an inquiring glance at her daughter." So we are launched on one of those tales of thrill and romance foi which......

Fiction.

SWEET PEPPER.* IT would probably be difficult to imagine a more vulgar and inappropriate dust-cover than the lilac and primrose design of cupids, hearts, telephones and "undies"......

This Is An Old-fashioned American Novel. It Smacks Of Bayard

Taylor. The acid but popular spinster who is the chartered wit of a small society, the dull but beautiful heroine, the immaculate hero and the crowd of God-fearing, food- loving......

The Elephant Man.i .

Sin FREDERICK Tanvra's reminiscences are capital reading, and a better book for the train could hardly be imagined than this collection of interesting, indeed often......

The Paper Of Murty Oge. By J. F. Mckeon. (o'connor.

Js.) These stories of Irish peasant life are told with a good deal of impressionistic eloquence. Revealing as they do the tragic and miserable lives of the country-people round......