19 JUNE 1926, page 28

The Best Short - Stories Of 1925; American. Edited By Edward

J. O'Brien. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) THE present collection consists almost entirely of subjective tudies of individual personalities, most of whom are far indeed in their Mental outlook......

Fiction

Tom Fool. By F. Tennyson Jesse. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d. net.)—Tom Fool had a genuis for life and a -genius for the sea He came of a Lancashire family of cotton operatives who had......

The Mirage Of The Dawn. By Kathlyn Rhodes. (hutchin- Son.

7s. 6d.). And Rough Passages. By Alice Perrin. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.)—In these two volumes one a full length novel, the other a collection of short stories—two well-known women......

The Charwoman's Shadow. By Lord Dunsany. (putnam. 7s....

of course, no common charwoman and she suffered as did many another hero and heroine of legend from having sold her shadow to a magician. This is a romance of mediaeval Spain,......

Winnowed Wisdom. By Stephen Leacock. (bodley Head....

Leacock there are as usual many grains of hard common sense among the flying chaff of fun. In the author's " Studies of the Newer Culture," for instance, he thus paraphrases a......

The Heroes Of Smokeover. By L. P. Jacks. (hodder And

Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—Readers who enjoyed Dr. Jacks' former Legends of Smokeover wilt be delighted to have a farther opportunity of being introduced to the struggles and......

Confirmation Instructions. By The Rev. Charles . Paterson...

(Hodder and Stoughton. 2s. (id. net.) Tan Rev. Charles Paterson Smyth is not the Archdeacon of that name who has won fame and affection by How We Got Our Bible and The People's......

Old Wine. By Phyllis Bottome. (collins And Co. 7s. 6d.)

—Vienna, derelict and starving at the end of the War, is the scene of Miss Bottome's new novel. There are passages which are almost too poignant—such for instance as the......