12 MAY 1923, page 23

An Interesting Account Of The Mental Processes Of A Post-

War girl who by mistake marries a parson. The author, in common with another personage whom it would be rude to mention, can quote Scripture to her purpose, but takes an......

• Miss Netts Syrett Has Already Made A Nice Reputation

by her historical romances and the charming period heroines who adorn them. Lady Jim is a well-told tale, capturing during its spell the most sophisticated reader, though we......

The Fortnightly.

M Camille Mauclair opens this issue - with a just and eloquent appreciation of Sarah Bernhardt—printed, we are glad to see, in the French original. There is much truth in his......

A House Full Of People.*

Tan authors of A House PUll of People have undertaken a difficult but an interesting task : and undertaken it with remarkable success. Instead of taking the lives of a single......

Those Who Remember Isabel Carnaby And The Double Thread Will

delight in The Lozver Pool—obviously they will not be young people. This new book is a - novel in auto- biographical form and its interest depends upon the author's exposition......

A Curious Story Of Ireland Before The Treaty, Full Of

the contradictions of that amazing country. The story proper concerns a family of young people disciplined with incredible severity by an otherwise good-tempered father and......

" Pauline " Runs Away From Intolerable Parents To Relations

in Germany, marries a foreign count of wealth and eccentric habits, is widowed, and becomes affianced to a decadent and neurotic specimen of post-War London Society man. The......

Periodicals.

The Nineteenth Century. Prominence is given this month to two articles on " Horrors' in Peace Time and their Commercial Exploiters," one by Mr. Stirling Taylor on " Some......

Major Baillie Has Written One Of The Strangest Of Books.

His reaction to the circumstances that he relates is so instant and so naive, and he expresses himself so freely and so naturally, that though he seems always in danger......