Penny Got. By Elizabeth Fagan. (grayson. 7s. 6d.)— This...
is told by a house, which no doubt explains its sentimentality and its extraordinary ideas of humour. Apart from its peculiar narrator, it is an ordinary tale of an ordinary......
Storied Urn. By Audrey Jennings. (constable. 7s. 6d.)...
tells the story, common enough in eighteenth- century comedy, of the rival lovers and the unsophisticated heroine : but she treats it with a depth and sympathy of her own, and......
A Pass In The Grampians. By Nan Shepherd. (constable. 7s.
6d.)—The village of Boggiewalls is somewhat startled by the intrusion of Dorabel Cassidy, once Bella Cassie, and now a famous singer with a knack of making the adjectives fly.......
The Crumb-snatchers. By Lorna Wood. (cape. 7s. 6d.) —"...
had discovered, early in life, that those who raved for bread generally received a stone, but that those who de- spised cake got 'caviare " : so the penniless caviare-snatchers......
Summer's Day. By Ianthe Jerrold. (chapman And Hall. 7s....
the most striking thing in this book is, not the summer's romance, though that is delicately and perceptively told, but the way in which Hilary, looking back twenty years later,......
A Cure Of Flesii,, By James Gould Cozzens.. (longman. 7s.
6d.)—" A doctor's private life is no concern . . . as the sub-title says : but, quite apart from enjoying a little scandal, his patients may be pardoned their interest when......
Two • Of A Kind. By Arthur Calder-marshall. (cape. 7s.
6d.)—Mr. Calder-Marshall makes observations, first on the marriages of Walter Wordsworth, and then on the life of his daughter Charlotte, who slowly learned the need for " dis-......
Purple Patches. By Richard Starr. (jenkins. 7s. 6d.) —a...
romantic romance about the three girls who loved Bill Bradley. Gladys was a queen—tall, dark— wonderful. Pinkie was pretty enough to eat. Suzanne's Voice was like soft 'cello......
The Ebony Mirror. By F. A. Gallimore. (methuen. 7s. 6d.)—a
fearsome tale of a haunted mirror in a house where even the coals drop with the air of fulfilling destiny. The whole household is4hreatened with insanity and unnameable evils......
Further Fiction
VILE BOAT OF LONGING. By 0. E. Ri3lvaag. (Harpers, 7s. 6d.)—What really became of Nils, who left Jo by the Sea and 'Mother Anna ' and sailed to seek his fortune in America ?......
Fiction
By L. A. G. STRONG. ANTONY CLARENDON grew up, an intelligent, healthy young pagan, against the background of a country house which was to impress him for life with ideas of......
Faith Unfaithful. By Katharine M. Williams. (harms-...
husband who is bought for a five-pound note is likely to be unsatisfactory. Henry was no sort of • use to the Colonel's daughter—nor indeed to Charmaine, who when he went back......
Bride Of Quietness. By Alexander Knox. (macmillan. 7s....
dream on a camping holiday, set in the hills and woods of Northern Canada. Peter and Jean are remarkably well done, and their romance is not only tolerable but genuinely moving.......
Wine With A Stranger. By Louise Redfield Peattie....
6d.)—A young French priest learns wisdom, and a Spanish artist takes wine with him, argues with him, and becomes his friend. This sounds a serious philosophical theme, but for......
Pageant. By G. B. Lancaster. (allen And Unwin. 7s. 6d.)
—A tale of the gentlemen-adventurers who colonized Australia, of their wives and families and convicts, and their troubles with the government at home. This is brilliant......
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