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Two Books About Lovat Fraser.*

CLAUD Lovwx FRASER was at once scholarly, gay and fas- tidious. But with this mixture we have not exhausted the excellences of his character. True, it is rare to find a scholar......

The Fair Maid Of Ward Our Street.* Tins Novel Should

sell, for it is of the type which appeals to a large number of novel-readers. It is concerned with love and hatred; it is picturesque, violent, emotional and full of variety and......

Fiction.

THE END OF THE HOUSE OF ALARD.* As its title implies, the hero of Miss Sheila Kaye-Smith's latest novel is not a person but an abstract entity, a god of the countryside that has......