Fiction
The Social Comedy Monte Carlo. By Henry K. Sienkiewiez. (Stanley Paul. 2s. 6d.) ONE of Mr. E. F. Benson's minor talents is that of chronicling small beer in a manner so......
Young Orland. By The Hon. Herbert Asquith. (hutchinson....
is a quiet and pleasantly written biography of a young man who is the adopted son of a country squire. Mr. Asquith does not convince the reader that there is any particular......
Max Carrados Mysteries. By Ernest Bramah.
(Hodder and Stoughton., 7s. 6d.)—Mr.Ernest Branaah's admirers have doubtless long ago accepted his convention that Max Carrados, the blind detective, can do anything fifty per......
The Mixer. By Edgar Wallace. (long. 7s.
This is less a novel than a series of short stories, to which a connected interest is given by the personality of the hero. "The Mixer" is a particularly cool and resourceful......
The Way Things Are By E. M. Delafield. (hutchin- Son.
7s. 6d. net.)—A minor Victorian poet once observed of his household, " In my family the domestic virtues have, run to seed." The same may be said of Laura Temple, Miss......
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