Elizabeth Awn The Archdeacon. By Ccorge A. Bir- Mingham....
75. 6d.)—The latest George Bir- mingham starts slowly and never gets very far ; but it involves 'Corsica, a missionary archdeacon, a drew designer, and twin suitcases, and......
Strange Guest. By Sylvia D. Hooke. (murray. 7s. 6d.) —a
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Drover's Bridge. By Beatrice Hill. (sampson Low. 7s....
sentimental account of the return of happiness to a lonely man's life. The party of children who bring it to him are, like so many children in fiction, as large as life and at......
Marriage Of Hermionf.. By Richmal Crompton. (mac- Millan....
Crompton writes, as always, with distipction and humour. Her story of Herinione's married life can be heartily recommended as an• individual novel about ordinary people.......
Current Literature
EARLY ASTRONOMY AND CHRONOLOGY By C. P. S. Menon The first of a promising series of monographs to be known as the History of Science Library, under the general editorship of......
• Brave Master. By John Le Strange. (murray. 7s. - 6d.) '—an
excellent study of a marriage with the odds against it. Helen had to decide whether she valued her literary career More than her husband : and, though neither conclusion could......
The Life Of The Church Edited By M. C. D'arey",
S.J. • This book, the, work of five Jesuit scholars (Sheed and Ward : 7s. 6d.) was first published- and widely read in France under the title, Christus. It is really a......
Guys And Dolls. By Damon Runyon. (jarrolds. 7s. 6d.)...
society, it would appear, consists of guys, dolls, and " little moustaches," and has no time to be dull. These lively tales are told by a gentleman with a taste for scandal, an......
Once In Bngland. By Ernest Raymond. (cassell. Ss....
of Mr. Raymond's books will want this ;omnibus volume, which contains revised editions of A Family That Was, The Jesting Army, and Mary Leith. Print, paper, find price are aboVe......
Gold Of Toulouse. By John Clayton. (heinemann.
8s. Wherever La Blanca Rosa was, there would be adventure." In Toulouse in 1209 there were - battle, torture, bloodshed and intrigue in her honour. Mr. Clayton deals in......
Herefordshire Monuments
The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments has added to its excellent series a second volume of An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, dealing with the......
Cheerful Weather For The Wedding. By Julia Strachey....
light-hearted squib about the wedding of two unlovely people in a high wind. Miss Strachey is acute, malicions, and high-spirited, and knows the length of a joke.......
Young Man's Testament. By John Arrow. (putnam. 6d,)—an...
a yachting holiday on the Broads. Mr. Arrow writes well, with a real sense of character and proportion, and no shirking of action. His first novel can be highly recommended.......
Tim System. By Lionel Birch. (allan. 7s. Gdi—an Argument On
a much-discussed aspect of the public-School system. Mr. Birch contrasts a boys' school and a' girls' school with a co-edueritiorial - one, in a • story that is meant to be......
Further Fiction
t.Kopz CARRIES ON. - By F. 0; MUM. (Faber and Faber. R. tad.)- 2 --Grope, that lovable and Pepysian,man, was shaken by the War into a Government office and adventure. The hero......
Sister Of Tan Sex. By Sonia Keppel. (chapman And Mall.
7s. 6d.)—It is a far cry front the Edwardian drawing room to the start of a solo flight to Cape Town. Georgia Fane goes her rebellious way with real charm, and the worlds in......
Fupitive Morning. By Leslie A. Paul. (archer. 7s. Tad.)...
ideas are high-falutin and Shavian, but the story, of his life in $outh.Lendon, and his various loves and friend:ships; is human and quite readable.......
Shortgrass. By Hal. G. Everts. -(skeffington. 7s. 6d.)—...
of the everyday "should get hold. of Shortgrass, a Wild West extravaganza which will 'take them back to the Puttalo Bill country of their youth.......
Pity Of Goy. By Beulah Marie Dix. (bodley Head. 7s.
6d.)—One day is all we are given with the Vickery fl mily f and then tragedy overwhelms the house in the canyon. near Hollywood. In that day, however, Miss Dix tells its all......
Chinook.' 'by Ursula Leigh. (heritdge. 7s. 6d.)--a Young...
Catherine, who had a bad time in various parts of Canada, finds port after stormy seas. Miss Leigh writes with force, in the Canadian idiom.,......
The Second Leopard. By John Lambourne. (murray....
s, tlieOWT, the Leopard, and the other inhabitants of The Kingdom Thal Was. Mr. Lambourne's animals. talk charmingly, and act with decision. - - - – •......
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