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Th3 Desert Of Dreams. By Mrs. Frances Everard....

6d. net.)—The reader who does not object to being frankly transported to fihnland will be amused by The Desert of Dreams, in which the most astounding adventures follow one......

Fiction

AN. ESCAPE INTO REALITY Miss Tiverton Goes Out. By the Author of The House Made With Hands. (Arrowsmith. 7s. 6d. net.) Miss Tirerton Goes Out is a novel of great beauty and......

The Education Of Anthony Dare. By Archibald Marshall....

tid. net.) There arc many things to be said in criticism of Mr. Mar- shall's new novel. In the first place, it is some time, according to the annals of fiction, since the first......

Other Novels

The Crowded Street. By Winifred Holtby. (John Lane. 7s. 6d. net.)--The heroine of this novel exclaims towards the end of the volume, "Why does not somebody write a book about......

Golden Ballast. By H. De Vere Stacpoole. (hutchinson. 7s....

net.)—Not anything like the famous Blue Lagoon, but a very ordinary and not particularly exciting yarn about gold ingots discovered in an unlikely place.......

Finance-public And Private

EUROPEAN DEBTS By ARTHUR W. KIDDY THE reassembling of Parliament is not usually regarded as a " bull " point on the Stock Exchange. Heated and often acrimonious discussions upon......

The Next Corner. By Dudley Carew. (john Lane. 7s. 6d.

net.)—Is concerned with the inconveniences which arise when father and son fall in love with the same woman. The story contains a series of those irritating events of which most......

Mrs. Harter. By E. M. Delafield. (hutchinson. 7s. Ad....

the characters in this picture of life in an English country-town are cleverly drawn, and provide a sincere and lively background for the main story of an exceptional women's......

Miss Mannin Gives Her Readers An Interesting Account Of The

romance of a fisherman's life as it affects himself and his townbred wife. The book opens with a forcible description of the unattractive Mary Simley and her sudden surrender to......

Th:., Reckless Lady. By Sir Philip Gibbs. (hutchinson....

nt.)—This attempt to cast an nil-inclusive light over modern life shows sad traces of its original creation in serial form. Every conceivable aspect of every burning question of......

Sailors' Wives. By Warner Fabian. (stanley Paul. 7s. 6d....

" sailors " of the title are no mariners, but American husbands who venture out into a world of varied interests leaving their womenfolk at home in peril of ennui and varied......