" A Staid, Uninteresting Life Is Here," Writes Mr. Gilbert
Coleridge in his rhymed preface to Some and Sundry (Con- stable, 9s.), but he does himself an injustice. He may not have had many exciting passages in his career, but he has......
Adele And Co. By Dornford Yates. (hodder And Stough- Ton.
7s. 6d.)—How pleasant it is to meet Berry . again after so many years. He has grown a little older, but is as witty and joyously idiotic as ever he was. He still dashes about in......
New Novels
TO-DAY'S VIRTUE. By Faith Baldwin. (Sampson Low. 7s. 6d.)—First love, disillusionment, second love—in an American setting. The theme is not new, but the story is told with a......
Fiction
Children—and Adults 7s. 6d.) WHEN a novel has real individuality—Miss Mole, for instance, Morning Tide, All Passion. Spent — it is easier to state the quality than to define it.......
The Silver Flute. By Lida Larrimore. (methuen. 7s....
whimsical novel by an American writer describes how an eighteen-year-old girl, having lost her parents, " mothers ' her young brothers and sisters, and finds an attractive......
Mapp And Lucia. By E. F. Benson. (hodder And Stoughton.
7s. 6d.)—Mr. Benson's readers know by now what to expect from him, and his latest novel—recalling Miss Mapp—will in no way disappoint them.......
Pleasant In Format And Type, The Shorter Poems Of Robert
.ridges, which has just been published (Oxford University Press, 7s. 6d.), is a companion volume to the popular edition of " The Testament of Beauty." A few weeks before his......
Fifteen Rabbits. By Felix Salten. (heinemann. 6s.)— An...
of the woodlands, written in the manner of a Hans Andersen fairy story. The style is too artificial, but some of the descriptions are really exquisite. The author knows his......
To-day It Is A Little Difficult To Remember That The
theatre, like the Garden of Paradise, was once a milieu exclusively male. In Enter the Actress (Harrap, 15s.) Miss Rosamond Gilder has appointed herself historian, to the......
Ir Kerrell (hodder And Stoughton. 7s. 6d.) " Taff- Rail
" administers another dose of " the mixture as before." The period is the War ; and his sailormen are as bold and resourceful afloat as they are bashful and ingenuous on land.......
Half-baked, Emotional Story " Irish.' The Irish Are A...
cultured people, and prefer the King's English to Mayfair slang.......
Current Literature
Shooting with Rifle and Camera (Gollanez, 18s.), by Mr. A. J. Siggins, describes the ingenious and arduous process of filming a hippopotamus herd, - which formed the leading......
At The Sign Of The Grid. By Horace Annesley Vachell.
(Ward Lock. 7s. 6d.)—Contains a number of stories of magazine type about the adventures and wagers of members of ` The Gridiron,' an exclusive and rather queer club. All make......
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