11 SEPTEMBER 1926, page 27

A Hare's Sanctuary.

A good many anecdotes have been told recently of the sudden appeal of birds and other animals to mankind at times of stress. The best incident that I know of was told me by an......

Passing The Love Of Women. By Guiseppe Bianco. (cassell. 7s.

6d. net.)—Though the lurid paper- jacket of this novel suggests that the contents are sheer melodrama, in fact its tale of a more than ordinary affection between one brother for......

Pleasant Novels

WE, all of - us, have a favourite day-dream as to what we should do if we were given a considerable sum of money. Audrey Farrant, Mr. Whitelaw's heroine in The Island of Romance......

Landlords And Weeds.

How many small interesting facts are only discovered by help of such thorough peregrinations as a sportsman makes early in September. The fields belonging to different farmers......

A Blind Pig's Friend.

A great many animals help one another in distress, though none rival the mothers in this regard, unless it be the male partridge. The best example that ever I can quote concerns......

Hands Unseen. By Herman Landon. (hutchinson. 7s. 6d....

plot is almost too full of entangle- ment. There are innocent men involved in shady deeds, criminals who take up crime from the noblest of motives, betrayals and......

• 'scutcheon Farm. By Mrs. J. 0. Arnold. (nelson. 7s.

6d. net.)--A gentle tale of devotion and suffering, set in the Lake District' The heroine, a woman of exceptional firmness of character, is at once a victim of an unhappy marr......

Country Life And Sport

HARVEST AND PARTRIDGES. With what completeness harvest hides and protects wild life over English fields may be inferred from the experience of the first two weeks of September......