19 OCTOBER 1929, page 42

Plain Sailing. By A Gentleman With A Duster. (mills And

Boon. 7s. 6d.)--All who appreciate the exquisite polish that " A Gentleman with a Duster " (who is now known without question to have been the late Mr. Harold Begbie) applied to......

The Best Short Stories Of 1929. Edited By Edward J.

O'Brien. (Cape. 7s. 6d.)—Nineteen-twenty-nine's harvest of short stories has a richness of quality:ba -it lacks weight. The editor makes no unjust claim for the book ; as he......

Fiction

Big and other Noises Miss FANNY HURST iS still devoted both in style and matter to The Big Noise and The Big Idea and, on the whole, the Noise has it. Five and Ten is an obvious......

General Knowledge Questions

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. W. C. I. FoX, 1 Sonehri Bagh Road, New Delhi, India, for the following......