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The Monkshood Murders. By A. C. And Carmen Edington....

7s. 6d.) " A strangely-murdered editor, another with a ' hunch,' Some goofs ' and an evangelist, a much-suspected lunch Make up a Yankee puzzlement, that's crowded with......

Beauty And The Beasts. By Charles Woodrington. (elkin...

Marrot. 7s. 6d.)—Contains one long story about a good girl and her bad mother, and ten rather dreary short ones. All are readable but undistinguished.......

Some Books Of The Week

PRINCESS CATHERINE RADZIWII.L is not the first, and will not be the last, to tell the tragic story of Nicholas II : The Last of the Tsars (Cassell, 12s. 6d.). She has the......

New Novels

DARK HERITAGE. By Shirland Quin. (Harrap. 7s. 6d.) —A competent, interesting but over-crowded account of the vicissitudes in the life of a young Welshman forced by his brother's......

Britmis (jonathan Cape, 12s. 6d.) Was The Telegraphic...

the British Military Mission attached to the armies of Admiral Kolchak in Siberia ; and the author of the book, Major Phelps Hodges, was a member of this ill-conceived and......

The Background Of English History Is Nowhere Better...

in Mr. L. F. Salzmann's handy little volumes on mediaeval life and industries. These are now most usefully supplemented by his new book on English Trade in the Middle Ages......

Red Like Crimson. By Jane Paradine. (putnam. 7s. 6d.)—all...

can remember the mystery and seemli- ness of Victorian nurseries will thank the author for giving them a present of their own childhood. Others will regard the tale as charming......

Since 1928, The Golden Cockerel Press Has Been Occupied...

exclusively on one great work, the issue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in four volumes at twenty-five guineas the set. This work is handmade, both paper and binding. Es-......

My Mother's House. By Lily Tobias. (allen And Unwin. 8s.

6d.)—With this diffuse study of a young Jew's revolt against Judaism is blended the conventional irritant of his love for a Jewess. Dignified but forced and to that extent......

Arfon. By Rhys Davies. (foyle. 12s. 6d.)—arfon Grew Up...

deformed, and by reputation an idiot. It was a poor set of qualifications for life in the rural Wales of modern literature. Mr. Rhys Davies is a deft horror-monger. He weaves......

Property Of A Gentleman. By Lady Troubridge. (collins....

It was . . . neither the room nor the food that was too much for her. It was Life." So to escape she married money. A trite " society " drama.......