14 APRIL 1928, page 26

The - Madness "of' Monty.- - By- - Robert '

Keiible. (Nisbet. 75. 6d.)-Experience as an officer in a Labour corps, and the spectacle of Rouen, awoke in the meek . Mr. Montague-Smith the sense of rebellion. He was a......

Bread And Honey. By Madeline Linford. , (heine- Mann. 75.

6d.)- - Miss Angela Worth, resident in that self- conscious though charming Cheshire village, Clonterbrook, received five packages of notepaper among her Christmas gifts. The......

Tile Second House. By Ward Copley. (gerald 'howe. 7s....

is a very mature first novel. It has 'several excellently drawn characters ; it presents a variety of memorable scenes, ranging from. mid-Victorian rural 'England to a Vienna......

Great French Short Stories. (ernest Benn. 8s....

One voluine! We begin with a translation of Aucassin and Nicolete, pias to examples of the lively Marguerite of Navarre and Rabelais, and come to the moderns by way of La......

Fiction

Childhoods East and West The Legend Called Meryom. By Joseph Geer. (George Allen and Unwin. 78. 6d.) 110WEVER dubious be the benefits of psycho-analysis, that ruthless method of......

:the Marriage Bed. By Ernest Pascal. (allen And Unwin. 7s.

6d.)-Through this story of modern American life there runs the implicit thesis that sex is only incidental to marriage, which; as 'an institution, need not - be *reeked by......

The Game And The Candle. By Margaret Kennedy. (heinemann....

is, a penetrating little .study of the meeting, after many years, of two sisters. _One, the beauty, had run away with a peevish scholar whose wife would not divorce him, and,......

General Knowledge Questions. -

OUR General Knowledge prize of One Guinea is awarded -this week to a competitor (Mrs. Gurney, Ingham Old Hall, ,Norwich) with 4 new and excellent idea she has taken the......

A Library List

MISCELLANEOUS :-Eat and Keep Young. By. Dr. Josiah Oldfield. (Methuen. 8s. ficl.)--,Ratables. in _Cornwall. By J. H. Wade. (Methuen. 7s. 6d.)---More Essays of To-day.- Selected.......