13 MARCH 1936, page 32

The Poetics Of Detection Thou Shell Of Death. By Nicholas

Blake. (Crime Club. 7s. 6d.) Miss DOROTHY SAYERS has recently and most amusingly pointed out (in the first number of English, the new magazine of the English Association) that......

Royal Reminiscences

Tia: authoress of these colourful reminiscences has always passed as the daughter of the WitteLsbach Duke Ludwig, brother of the Empress Elizabeth of Austria, by his wife,......

F. S. Oliver's Letters

The Anvil of War. By F. S. Oliver. (Macmillan. • 12s. ad.) Tins selection of letters from F. S. Oliver to his brother (some of whose replies arc included), written as they were......

The Flood

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