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The Mutiny Of The 'elsinore.' By Jack London. (mills And

Boon. 6s.)—As an adventure story pure and simple, The Mutiny of the 'Elsinore,' with its prolonged periods of inaction, may be counted a failure. But to assert this is not to......

M. Paul Clandel Is Perhaps The Best Known Of The

younger school of French poets; while his strong Roman Catholicism brings him into touch with what many believe to be the chief movement of modern France—the anti-secularist......

Ileads.blb Novara—wesblock : The Autobiography Of An...

McDonald Walters. (J. M. Dent and Sons. 2s. 6d. net.)—" Wesblock is a common type, and he writes himself down as he knows himself, or thinks he knows himself "; yet the result......

The Study Of The Science Of Government Has Received A

notable addition in Mr. Basil Edward Hammond's Bodies Politic and their Governments (Cambridge University Press, 10e. 6d. net). Mr. Hammond analyses in turn the various forms of......

Many Of Our Readers Who Are Interested In The Subject

of charity organization will be glad to know of a small book recently issued called The History of the Monmouth Street Society, Bath, by Percy Vere Turner (S P.O.K. Depot, 3......

Fiction.

RAIN BEFORE SEVEN.* Ma. Lail:arms, who enters the literary arena with an equipment rare in a novice, serves to illustrate a criticism of the late Sir Alfred Lyall in the volume......

Contemporary Drama Is Hardly Conceivable In England As...

of a course of University lectures. The papers collected in Aspects of Modern Drama, by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (Macmillan and Co., 8s. 6d. net), were, however, originally......

Edgar Chirrup. By Peggy Webling. (methuen And Co. 6s.)...

we have discovered several split infinitives in Miss Webling's book, we wish to praise very highly indeed her style of writing. She can be satirical without bitterness, light......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in This column does not necessarily preclude subsequent rerien.1 A translation has just appeared of the second half of Fran Forster-Nietzsche's Life of her brother,......