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A Lover's Tale. By Maurice Hewlett. (ward, Lock, And Co.

6s.)—We are somewhat bewildered by A Lover's Tats, which is, according to an author's note, a free adaptation of a genuine but little-known saga, and which seems in some......

Readable Novels.—marriage By Conquest. By Warwick...

6s.)—A costume comedy, full of delicacy and happiness, with an admirable hers—Yes. By Mary Agnes Hamilton. (William Heinemann. ffs.)—Joan is a neurotic and exasperating young......

The Psychology Of Flags Would Be The Subject For A

curious essay. Those variously coloured oblong pieces of material which stir such passionate feelings in the human heart are surely not the least strange of the conventional......

Mr. L. Cecil Jane In The Interpretation Of History (j.

M. Dent and Sons, 5s, net), a book which was completed before the outbreak of war, seeks "to discover some underlying factor in accordance with which history may be interpreted......

The New Section Of The Oxford English Dictionary (oxford...

Press, 5a.) covers the words from "Spring" to "Standard," the first portion of it being by Dr. W. A. Craigie and the second by Dr. Henry Bradley. The most striking feature of......

The Splendid Blackguard. By Roger Pocock. (john Murray....

makes it very difficult for us to enjoy his book. Re is deliberately affected, as a humorist he is often a poseur, sometimes he talks wildly and with evident insincerity, as......

Fiction.

TWO SINNERS! WE are not going to follow the precedent set by so many contemporary reviewers in dealing with new books by new authors and declare that Mrs. Ritchie's novel......

Was Bosse.—the Third Volume Has Now Been Published Of...

History of the War, by Mr. John Buchan (T. Nelson and Sons, ls. net). It carries the narrative of the Western campaign from the battle of the Aisne to the fall of Antwerp, and......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notiss Si this column don not neosssorily ys•aIud. subssgtrntreoiots.] The British and Foreign Bible Society (146 Queen Victoria Street, E.C.) are issuing every convenient......