10 NOVEMBER 1923, page 24

Fiction; Arnold Bennett At Last.*

IT was the engaging habit of Edward Henry Machin, other- wise'Denry the Card, to make up his mind, when things were at their worst, "to teach 'em a thing or two." Mr. Bennett......

The Guilty Innocent. By George Greenland. (fisher Unwin....

net.) The Guilty Innocent, which is Mr. George Greenland's first novel, suffers from an oblique form. The principal character, Francis Everlands, has become engaged after a......

Vindication. By Stephen Mckenna. (hutchinson. 7s. 6d. Net.)

This is a thoroughly unpleasant book, and it will seem to the reader that it is impossible to vindicate any one of the characters of the drama. The peculiar Social Circle......

Epithalamium. By Jacques Chardonne. (heinemann. 7s. 6d....

the Northcliffe Prize for the best French novel in 1922: it is a book which brings upon its author no discredit. It shows a continual accuracy of observation, and indeed almost......