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New Novels

THE SHORTEST NIGHT. By G. B. Stern. (Heinemann 7s. 6d.).—Although The Shortest Night is noes very good detective story—the detection is too amateur for most hardened mystery......

"-the Week-end Omnibus. (heinemann. 7s. 6d.)— Messrs....

Miss Lorna Rea and her Six Mrs. Greens, and Mr. Somerset Maugham. and his Ashenden. Mr. Coward produces Private Lives. Between them, they should keep the wettest week- enders'......

The First Two Volumes Of The Plays Of W. Somerset

Maughant (Heinemann, 5s. each) include Lady Frederick, Mrs. Dot, Jack Straw, Penelope, Smith, and The Land of Promise. None of these six is a great play. With the exception of......

Jeddith Keep. By Elsa Lingstrom. (philip Earle. 7s....

tells the old story of an illegiti- mate child who is not introduced to her mother until she is nearly grown up, and makes quite a pleasant chronicle of the year they spent......

Current Literature

IN The Wind in the Bus-Tops (Methuen, '7s. 6d.), Mr. C. P. Hawkes gives us forty " variations on London airs from East to West." He not only knows London intimately, but, with......

Without Saying Anything One Way Or Another About The Ethics

of staghunting as pursued on Exmoor and Ifs -neighbourhood (and the author says nothing on this - point either), one readily admits that Memories of - a Stag-Harbourer......

Fiction

Four Novels THERE'S nothing in a story, as a rule. The thing which counts is what the writer brings to the story, the quality of the mind running through the telling, visible in......

Medieval Latin Lyrics, By Philip Schuyler Allen...

Press, 18s.).—Professor Allen has been for twenty years and more a student of this difficult and attractive subject ; the present work must be considered a continuation of, and......