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From His Unequalled Experience Limned For The Most Part In

his Berlin Ambassador's Diary Lord D'Abernon has been persuaded to extract the essence of sheer human interest, and thus to furnish the literary gourmet with one of the most......

Sowing Glory. Edited By P. C. Wren. (john Murray.. 7s.

Gd.)—" Mary Ambree," the girl who enlisted in the Foreign Legion to look after her lover, had no literary gift. Her diary lacked colour. She asked Mr. Wren to edit it, and the......

The Whicharts. By Noel Streatfeild. (heinemann. 7s....

Daisy, the illegitimate children of three mothers, are brought up conventionally by their father's childless mistress. The story of their actions and reactions is written very......

New Mason-dixie Line Is What Mr. Walter Aidan Cotton...

to advbcate in his book Racial Segregation - in South 'Africa (The Sheldon Press., 2s. Gd.). On one side of the line white immigrants should continue to enter in as large......

The Lost Valley. By Algernon Blackwood. (nash And...

6d.)—The- Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute is the most beautiful of these ten queer stories of magic and horror. All of them read like the literature of a hidden and......

Mice And Management. By Michael Hamilton. (noel Douglas....

would write—or review— funny books ? Funny or unfunny is so much a matter of taste ; and, if one fails to be amused, one is charged with having no sense of humour. Mr.......

Current Literature

MR. RATHER is singularly unfortunate, his book Is Britain De- cadent ? with an introduction by C. E. M. Joad (Sampson Low, 7s. Gd.) written on the assumption that we should......

Albatross. By John Presland. (hodder And Stoughton. 7s....

Airship Commander Repri- manded," " Famous Explorer Censured," make bitter reading for Major Johnson, who has been obliged to desert his comrades. The book describes very ably......