11 NOVEMBER 1922, page 8

The Crabtree Saga.* A Novel Of Five Hundred Pages May

alarm the faint-hearted ; and if they see, as frontispiece, a genealogical table giving six generations and forty-three individuals, they will perhaps turn sadly away and......

Number, Weight And Measure.* There Is Something...

in the label " a careful poem," " a careful novel." . We are all childish and romantic enough to believe that a genius is prodigal in art, flings out his riches pell-mell, and......

Autobiography In Soliloquy.* Mn. Stephen Mckenna Has At...

a good novel ; or it would be more true to say perhaps that he has at last chosen a theme worthy of his undoubted talent. Soliloquy takes the form of a letter written by a......

War-time In Monte Carlo.t If The Enemies Of Women Were

no more formidable than those in Seflor Ibafiez's latest novel, the ancient despotism of the weaker sex would not be seriously threatened, and there is probably that ironic......