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The Last Time. By Robert Hichens. (hutchinson. Is. 6d.)

These short stories do not show Mr. Hichens at his best. "The Letters" is the least disappointing. It is a skilfully managed little tale on well-worn conventional lines—a dull......

The November Magazines.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. The Imperial Conference is written about in this number from three different points of view by Mr. St. Loe Strachey, the Prime Minister of New Zealand,......

In The Morning Of Time. By Charles G. D. Roberts.

(Dent. 6s.) In a disarming preface to this story of prehistoric man Mr. Roberts apologizes for the liberties which he has taken with Time, and for the wealth of achievement with......

A Charming If Farcical Novel. The Love-making Is Quite...

pretty.......

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......

The Empire Review.

Mr. Winston Churchill lets himself go in criticizing an article about the British Empire which Mr. H. G. Wells contributed to the last number. Mr. Churchill says that Mr.......