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Fiction

PAPER HOUSES. By William Plomer. (llogarth Press. 7s. 6d.)-In his rather peevish and rambling preface, Mi. Plomer says that his book " makes no claim to being either romantic or......

Chronicles Of A Gigolo. By Julian Swift. (werner Laurie. 7s.

6d.)-Taking the form of a diary, written periodically while the incidents related are fresh ai his mind, this novel describes the experiences of a sentimental and ingenuous......

A Prophet Of Inflation It Is Not Surprising That John

Law, the too ingenious Scottish financier, should have been made the subject of a biographical romance such as fashion now demands. He died just two centuries ago, but the......

Rajani. By Bankin Chandra Chatterji. (calcutta Tlie Bocik...

yet subtle, story by a friiiidife' Bengali author describes how Rajani, a blind flower girl of great beauty but of supposedly low origin, falls in love, through his voice and......

Answers To Questions On April

I. Shakespeare : Two Gentlemen of Verona, I. 3.-2. Shake- "ease : As You Like It, IV. I.-3. Shakespeare : Sonnet xi:milt Sir Wm. Watson : Song.-5. Matthew Arnold : "The Scholar......

A Library List

Barbara Wilson. (Heinernann. 6.s.)-The Merchant Navy. Volume HI. By Sir Archibald Hurd. (Murray. 21s.)-Studies in the Napoleonic Wars. By Sir Charles Oman. (Methuen. 8s.......