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Flower Phantoms. By Ronald Fraser. (cape. 5s.)- R -- A...

of the hysterical imaginings and experiences of a young girl to whom the vegetable kingdom has a peculiar significance. She is a botanical student at Kew Gardens, where she......

The Fine Arts In Canada. By Newton Mactavish , (the...

Company of Canada, Limited. 21s. Dell MR. MACTAVISH says that the whole purpose of his book " to make known something about the progress of art, especial the fine art of......

Fly Leaves. By Mrs. Henry Dudeney. (collins. 7s. 6d....

eleven stories together take a section across one of the least inspiriting areas of life—that of small cottages, the aged poor, and the bitter longings of the obscure and......

Fiction

A SON OF THE HOUSE. By A. R. Weekes. (Constable. 7s. 6d.)—This is a novel of a definitely superior order, one which is worth reading seriously and then recommending afterwards.......

Carteret's Cure. By Richard Keverne. (constable. 7s. 6d....

flood of ingenious thrillers which is enlivening this late summer publishing season, it is refreshing to come across a volume in which character drawing plays as much part as......

And Exactly As The Author Describes Him. But It Is

a die- concerting and depressing realization.......

Orpheus ; Or The Music Of The Future. By W.

3. Turner. (Regan Paul. 25. 6d.) MR. TURNER is so prodigal with his cheap and generalizing condemnations that we cease to take him seriously after a few pages of his little......

The Letter E. By William Le Queux. (cassell. 7s. 6d.)—

Not one of this author's- most successful attempts at creating tales of mystery. Very little happens during the hero's attempts to save an aristocratic girl from a gang of......

Holiday Novels

Mr. Arthur Mills points out in The Danger Game (Hutchinson', 7s. ed.) the many perils undergone by the landlord class when they try to live as usual in post-War days. The rich......