Finance -public And Private
IT is rather difficult, when observing, on the one hand, the acute depression in our key industries with a growing number of unemployed, and, on the other hand, the quiet......
The Sloane Square Mystery. By Herbert Adams. (methuen....
net.)—It is very seldom in murder stories that the corpse is cast for the part of the villain ; but this ingenious device is resorted to by Mr. Herbert Adams in The Sloane......
Zoe Middlemist, Governess. By Bridget Kennedy.' (t....
6d. net.)—We may assume that this is a first novel, as Miss Bridget Kennedy appears to have no other volumes to her credit on the title-page. The whole setting of the story, the......
The Ring Of Straw. By Lady Norah Bentinck. (hurst And
Blackett. 7s. 6d. net.)—No one- who is not interested in church matters should attempt to read The Ring of Straw, which is entirely occupied with controversies between the......
Sorrell And Son. By Warwick Deeping. (cassell.
7s. 6d. net.)—The beginning of this story with the opening of a country hotel is good reading, and the accident by which the hotel eventually obtains publicity is entertaining......
Waters Of Fayle. By Cicely Farmer. (hutchinson. 7s. 6a:...
is one of the novels which, though beginning with considerable promise, fail to sustain their interest. The strange establishment at Fayle has considerable attraction , and......
Fiction
AIR. WELLS'S NEW NOVEL Christina Alberta's Father. By H. G. Wells. (Cape. 7s. 6d. net.) Mn. H. G. WELLS is not really by temperament or talent a prophet. He is something quite......
Other Novels
Between Earth and Sky. By Konrad Bercovici. (Jona- than Cape. 7s. 6d.)—The scene of many of these striking stories is laid in middle Europe, and the dramatis personae comprise......
Miles Kitson. By Claude E. Benson. (sampson Low. 7s. 6d.
net.)—The Border, the Solway and the Fells provide the mice en scene for this seventeenth-century story, while Covenanters, smugglers, a Scottish officer, and Miles Ritson......
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