Lighten Our Darkness. By Robert Keable. (constable. 8s....
that Mr. Keable has gained for what is generally described as "frankness," will certainly be increased by his new novel. In it he tells of the religious and amatory adventures......
The Gallants. By E. Barrington. (harrap. 10s. (id.) .....
whom Mrs. Adams Beck has recalled to life are very gay and small wonder, since they have for company such very, exquisite ladies. In fact, the only fault that one can find with......
Tiie Devil's Tower. By Oliver Ainsworth. (faber And...
6d.).—Mr. Ainsworth had provided an excellent plot for his mystery story and has also written it extremely well. His villains are unusual—one of them, a dreamy, fanatical......
The Case Of Bevan Yorke. By W. B. Maxwell. (benn.
7s. 6d.)—Do the Fates grow careless over their spinning or do they deliberately tangle the threads of incli- - vidual lives into an intricate mesh ? Mr. Maxwell does not......
The Armies Of The First French Rep1131•1(
th i s armies of revolutionary France and of their leaders, which is edited by his soh, Colonel C. F: Phipps. The book is-some- what difficult to read because the author tried......
• Love Lies Dreaming. By C. S. Forester. (the "bodley
head. 7s. 6d.)—Love, as personified by Constance's , husband, dreamed and wrote a diary about her. This is not to be wondered at, for Constance was a most delicious person. The......
,. The Best Short Stories Of 1926 (american). (cape. 7s.
6d.)—Here we have twenty short stories, all collected from the better type of American magazine. Apart from their individual excellence, they are important because they show a......
Fiction
To-day and To-morrow Now and then some generous mind, sick of the waste and suffering that clouds the present downward dip in the spiral of life, makes itself a solace in some......
Current Literature
SECOND ESSAYS ON LITERATURE. By Edward Shanks. (Collins. . 16s.)—Mr. Shanks looks . at literature with a detached sobriety which makes the reader at first enviou and then......
Alfred The Great. By Allan Monkhouse. (seeker. 7s....
Great, so called by his admiring family, was for a short time a successful novelist. Then the public tired of him and he became a nonentity except in his own eyes. A convenient......
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