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The Immortal Lover. By John A. Steuart. (harrap....

remarked of Robert Burns : "True and genial as his poetry must appear, it is not chiefly as a ' poet but as a man that he interests and affects us." These words provide the......

Satan The Waster, By Vernon Lee (the Bodley Head, 5s.),

was published ten years ago and completely ignored by all the critics (except, of ,course, Mr. Bernard Shaw). It is not altogether surprising. The state of public feeling at......

. I Am Jonathan Scrivener. By Claude Houghton. (thornton...

7s. 6d.)—By an excellent device , the principal character and the most arresting one in this book does not appear in it at all. He merely, for his own queer ends, causes certain......

More Books Of The Week

(Continued from page 785.) Perhaps The Diary of a Dog (Cecil Palmer, 5s.) is not a book for everybody. The present writer, who has himself driven from Banint to Cashmere, and......

The April Number Of Apollo Comes As A Very Pleasant

pendant to the Exhibition of Italian Pictures at Burlington House. Whoever was responsible for the selection of the beautiful coloured and halftone plates which accompany Signor......

Exiles. By Warwick Deeping. (cassell. 75. 6d.)— Admirers...

Deeping's sturdy young _men will be pleased to find their feminine equal in his latest novel. Barbara Brown, who goes to Italy to help a cold-bath devotee to run a library and......

Achieved Such A Sensational Success A Few Years Ago. Like

its predecessor it describes the terrible flood which Over- • whehns half Europe in a night, killing off and Scattering the population, and leaving only small Wands of land in a......

The Lady Jean. By Frank Dilnot. (brentanos. 7s....

a great vigour and sturdiness about Mr. Dilnot's new book, which deals with an imaginary situation in the history of England,' and shows how , a Kentish girl very nearly took......

• Ritchie Proved Her Worth As An Observer, And In

her second she displays the same careful faculty. She has a knack of describ- ing the small details of life, and at the same time keeping her readers aware of the larger issues.......

Public Assistance, By Geoffrey Drage (john Murray, 15s.),...

of letters, articles, and petitions published or presented . to ministers by the author, and the Denison House Committee. Readers of the Times will be familiar with the tenor of......

The Designs Of Carpets, Tapestries, Aprons, Skirts, Table...

which have been reproduced in Mr, George Opre:scu's Peasant Art in Roumania (The Studio, 7s. 6d.), are truly exq_uisite. They should be a great delight and assistance to anyone......