11 JUNE 1921, page 24

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The London Mercury for June contains a spirited article by the late Mr. E. W. Hornung on Charles Reade,......

Readable Novais.—ursula Vaned. By Arthur Mills. (bale,...

6s. net.)—A cheerful story by the author who used to write under the name of " Platoon Commander." The early chapters concerning the lives of three very young men at Sandhurst......

Poets And Poetry.

DOMESDAY BOOK.• MR. EDGAR LEE MASTERS, the author of the Spoon River Anthology, has written a portentous poem. There are 396 pages to the book and an average of twenty-soven......

Discovery, The Excellent " Popular Journal Of Knowledge "...

by Dr. A. S. Russell (Murray, ls. net monthly), has in its June number an article on " Colour Photography " by Dr. R. A. Houstoun, who explains with unusual lucidity the......

England's Outpost : The Countfy Of The Kentish Cinque Ports.

By A. G. Bradley. (R. Scott. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Bradley has written an attractive book, well illustrated by Mr. F. Adcock, to supplement his Old Gate of England. There he dealt......

Norfolk And Suffolk. Painted By A. Heaton Cooper....

W. G. Clarke. (Black. 25s. net.)—Mr. Clarke knows East Anglia well and gives a good general account of its main features. He devotes separate chapters to " Broad- land," "......

Poems Wortey Oa Consideration. —the Hills Of Arcetri. By...

Louise Everett. (John Lane. 5s.)—V era fibre poems about Italy, chiefly landscape.--Gerard and Isabel. By F. W. Bourdillon. (Alexander Moring. 75. 6d.)—A pretty pseudo-mediaeval......

The Development Of The Leeward Islands Under The...

C. S. S. Higham. (Cambridge University Press. 20s. net.) This able essay shows how interesting our early colonial history may be when it is worked out in detail from State......

The Teaching And Cultivation Of The French Language In...

By Kathleen Lambley. (Manchester University Press : Longman. 14s. net.)—Miss Lambley has written a remarkably interesting book on the history of the teaching and use of French......