16 SEPTEMBER 1916, page 20

Fiction.

BLOW THE MAN DOWN.t Mn. lout AN DAY is an American writer with a dozen or so of books to his credit, but we confess to a complete ignorance of his work until Blow the Man Down......

New Volumes In The " Loeb Library."• ;

Timm new volumes in the " Loeb Library " for the most part cover familiar ground in a workmanlike manner, though without any very special distinction. To the general reader the......

Past And Present At The English Lakes.* Canon Rawnsley Has

written so many pleasant essays on the Lake country and the Lake poets, and has done so much to preserve that happy corner of England from being vulgarized, that this new volume......

Readable Novel2.—an Australian Woo* By Sophie Osmond.

(Garden City Press. Os.) —In this novel the lish people among the characters form an unpleasant contrast to the Australians. There is both a business and a love interest in the......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The People who Run. By Violetta Thurstan. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 2s. ficl. net.)—Under this curious......