19 JANUARY 1924, page 21

Fifty-third Annual Report Of The Deputy- Master And...

THE ROYAL MINT, 1922. (H.M. Stationery Office. 5s. net.) It is gratifying to notice that steps are being taken to attain a higher level of artistic merit in the production of......

B. Perfect Day. By Bohm Lynch. (collins. 5s. Net.)

A writer may exercise the emotion of sentiment either as a weakness or as a strength. In the one case the result will be sentimentality, in the other—literature. But it is......

The Arts.

HOME AND COUNTRY ARTS. By W. R. Lethaby (" Home and Country " Magazine, 26 Booleston Street, London, la.) This is a splendidly discursive little book containing more sound sense......

Two American Writers.

Ada is a book for idle and leisured readers. The author gives the impression of having some occult intellectual standard by which to judge everything ; and her skilful......

In The Finger Post Mrs. Henry Dudeney Takes For Her

principal character a man who is mentally abnormal. Joseph Durrant, with whose birth the first chapter is concerned, is the son of a thatcher living on the Weald of Sussex, and,......