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Contemporary Russian Literature. By Prince D. S....

6d. net.) Tins manual is copious and comprehensive ; an excellently detailed guide through a profusion of talent. Russian literature as a whole seems to Western eyes to be on a......

Current Literature

FUGLEMAN THE FOXHOUND. By Harding Cox. (The Bodley Head. 7s. 6d.) Fugleman the Foxhound in writing his autobiography is careful to impress upon his readers that he is a hound......

Mantrap. By Sinclair Lewis. (cape. 7s. 6d. Net.)— It Was

ingenious but wicked of Mr. Lewis to begin his new novel, Mantrap, almost at the end, with a hero and heroine fleeing through the wildest of the wild Canadian North-West, an......

Fiction

THE INCREDULITY OF FATHER BROWN. By G. K. Chesterton. (Cassell. 7s. 6d. net.)—Father Brown solves his mysteries with very great ease. His simplicity of character gives him a......

To Write A Charming Book Upon " Economic Problems "

is not an easy task. Mrs. Fisher has, however, accomplished it I Her object is to throw a light upon modern economic problems by describing those which beset this country, after......

On Doing What One Likes. By Alec Waugh. (cayme Press.

7s. 6d. net.) MR. WAyon's essays are graceful and pleasant. He talks of nothing in particular in a most casual way, and it is hard to stop reading. He is perhaps most attractive......