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The Society For Pure English.

TIM Society for Pure English, which has its seat at Oxford .and is guided by some of -the makers of the great Oxford Dictionary, has issued several instructive pamphlets during......

The Exchequer And The Control Of Expenditure.

Mn. R. G. Haw - TREY, a Treasury official, has contributed to the useful series entitled The World of To-day an instructive little treatise on The Exchequer and the Control of......

Fiction.

The Young Enchanted. By Hugh Walpole. (Macmillan. ild. net.)—It is difficult to discover the exact reason why Mr. Walpole divides the works of fiction which he publishes into "......

Romance To The .rescue. By Denis Mackail. (john Murray. 7s.

lid. net.)—It is pleasant to be able to say of a young author that his work improves with every novel he publishes, and this is certainly the case with Mr. Denis Maekail, but,......

If Winter Comes. By A. S. M. Hutchinson. (hodder And

Stoughton. (7s. 6d. net.)The problem which -here confronts the reader is a very old one. It is the problem of •social. conven- tions, of how to reconcile their utter......