12 JANUARY 1924, page 21

The Contemporary.

The moral of the General Election is drawn, according to their respective party standpoints, by Sir Evelyn Cecil, Mr. Pringle and Mr. Arthur Ponsonby. Mr. Pringle exultingly......

This Is The First Specimen Of An Anglo-arabian Novel...

on the well-known school of Anglo-Indian fiction. Mrs. Rosita Forbes knows her subject, and her Eastern characters are well drawn. The English people are certainly true to type,......

The Empire Review.

The writer of the Monthly Notes in the Empire Review gives a rollicking account of what he calls "The Truth About the Baldwin Debacle." He assumes that Mr. Baldwin had no idea......

The National.

The National Review in its editorial notes strongly repudiates the idea of a Conservative-Liberal coalition against Labour. "Privy Councillor," enforcing this view, declares......

The Fortnightly.

The Fortnightly starts the New Year well, with a series of instructive articles and with a much improved fount of type. " Augur " discusses "Balance of Power," pointing out the......

The Conventional Tale Of The "society Beauty Who, On The

death of her father, disguises herself as a man and goes to Tasmania to seek her fortune in the osmiridium She falls in love with the handsome and melodious-voiced Salarno, and,......

Blackwood's.

Sir Thomas Warner, with seventeen followers, landed on St. Christopher just three centuries ago. The story of this, the first permanent English colony in the West Indies, is......

The January Magazines.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. The Nineteenth Century begins with an article entitled "Quo Vadimus ? " by Mr. Hugh Chesterman, who, as might be expected, appeals for new efforts of the......