14 APRIL 1923, page 19

Periodicals.

Gerarchia : Rivista. Politica. Direttore : Benito Mussolini (Monthly. Lire 2.50.). The pious-lookin g blue outer cover of this review—somewhat reminiscent of a parish......

The Cow Jumped Over The Moon. By T. B. Morton.

(Philip Allan. 7s. 6d. net.) An unsophisticated story of a boisterous younger generation in victorious contact with an impossibly Victorian older generation. The chapters on......

A Very Lon G And Detailed Account Of A Month's Doings

at a public office durin g the 'War. No doubt the conversations, &c., are true to life, but the small details of administration are tedious, except to the administrators. The......

Next Of Kin. By W. E. Norris. (hutchinson. 7s. 6d.

net.) Though Mr. Norris is intellectually convinced that he is writing in the period after the War, the standpoint from which he views the world has not moved since the first......

Fiction;

THE LADYBIRD.* A PARADOX is a truism standing on its head. When Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer said that no reader ever cared what a book was about he evolved a typical paradox, though......

Fiery Particles.*

THE fact that Mr. Montagae had published his masterpiece, Disenchantment, but some months before this book of short stories led us to look for too much in them. If, like the......

Madame Claire. By Susan Ertz. (t. Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d.

net.) Surely no one but the author of a first novel, would be so rash_ as to take a woman of nearly eighty as the heroine of a story. The book, which deals with everyday life,......

7s. 6d.)

This charming story, which is more particularly suitable for girls, of a Dublin waif who became ac q uainted with some well-to-do children and the- subsequent improvement of her......