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The Secret Bird. By Daphne Muir. (chatto & Windt's 7s.

6d.). Here is a novel which can be recommended to everyone who likes good writing, sound characterization, and .quietly and steadily developed story. The scene is South, Africa.......

The Many Readers Of The Spectator Who Support Voluntary...

societies in this country will find Mr. Speake's little book, entitled War Against Stunts, of exceptional interest. The Prince of Wales, who has done so much for housing......

Strong Poison. By Dorothy L. Sayers. (gollanes. 7s....

much accomplished before the story opens— the murder, investigation by the police, an arrest, and all but the summing up of the judge and the verdict of the jury at the trial—it......

Inspector Frost And Lady Brassingham. By Dr. H. Maynard...

(Benn. 7s. 6d.)—Inspector Frost works largely by intuition. In his search for the missing head- mistress of a fashionable girls' school he is guided mainly by what he feels that......

General Knowledge Questions

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss Joan Marshall, Sarnes- field Court, Weobley, Hereford, for the following :—......

Labels, By Evelyn Waugh (duckworth, 8s. Od.) Is The Descrip-

tion of a tour in the Mediterranean. Much of it was carried out in the cruise yacht ' Stella Polaris' which naturally offers Mr. Waugh plenty of opportunity for the kind of......

In Black Manhattan, By James Weldon Johnson ( K Nopf,

7s. 6d.), the author tells the story of the emancipation of the northern negro. That history centres in New York, and is only half accomplished even to-day. Mr. Johnson displays......

Mrs. Fischer's War. By Henrietta Leslie. (jarrolds.

6d.) — " It is," says Mr. Galsworthy in his preface to this book, - unbelievable how many unbelievable things were believed by people during the War." In her new hook Mrs.......

John Russell, First Earl Of Bedford, Was One Of The

new men whom the Tudor monarchs employed and enriched. His origins, his career and the household of his son at Chenies are ably described by Miss Gladys Scott Thomson in her Two......

More Books Of The Week

(Continued from page 7804 A thoughtful and stimulating essay conies to us in the shape of Miss Storm Janieson's The Decline of Mem England (Cassell, 10s. 6d.). This book is a......