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On The Soul Of China, Which Has Been Carefully Translated

by . Mr. .1. H . Reece (Cape, 15s.). Dr. Wilhelm is less concerned with politics than with the people and their age-long habits and traditions, and his chapters on his journeys......

Fiction

Counterpoint in Fiction Mn. ALDOUS HUXLEY'S new novel, like its predecessors, oommunicates an intellectual excitement and a nervous -exasperation. It is an experiment in what......

The Jade's Progress. By J. Storer Clouston. (godley Head....

6d.)—Mr. Clouston cannot be accused of putting his best goods in the shop window. His first two chapters—with the usual mysterious incident in a French train, and then the......

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(Continued from page 491.) Colonel T. W. White has written a very vivid and moving story of flying in Mesopotamia in 1915, and captivity and escape in Turkey in Guests of the......

The Yellow Pigeon. By Cannel Linden Guest. (harrap. 7s....

Guest, who gave us :last year a poignant study of Southwark slum life, has turned to war-tune Belgium for the scene of her new novel. - It is only the backwash of the actual......

Two New Books On India Are India's Constitutional...

Sir Sivaswamy Aiyer (Taraporevala, 12s. 6d.), and The Land Pirates of India (Seeley, Service, 21s.). The latter is a very fascinating description by Mr. W. J. Hatch, late of the......

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The novice for whom Mr. William G. Menzies has written an attractively illustrated work on Collecting Antiques (John Lane, 25s.) may find it somewhat difficult to read because......

One Of The Ripest Scholars Of Our Day, Mr. Edwyn

Bevan, has devoted his learning and his gift of lucid expression to a new field of investigation in Sibyls and Seers (Allen & Unwin, 7s. 6d.). It will not do to dismiss belief......

Sir Sivaswamy Aiyer Was Of Course A Member Of The

Execu- tive Council in Madras, and is therefore well qualified to deal with constitutional problems in India at some length. Sir Sivaswamy is a well-wisher of the Empire and......