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Week-end Marriage. By Faith Baldwin. (sampson Low. 7s....

with jobs will have proof from Miss Baldwin that they had much better stay at home and do housework. They will be so muck amused by her competent story, however, that they will......

Leading Strings. By Phyllis Hambledon. (sampson Low. 7s....

opens well, in a bedroom with pink roses on the walls, and Miss Hambledon carries through with an admirably fresh touch the story of a girl, brought up to idleness, who cut......

India In Transition - By D. Graham Pole

Major Graham Pole has been in touch with the Indian National Movement all his life, and the focus of its sym- pathizers inside the Parliamentary Labour Party. His b o ok, India......

The Forsaken House At Misty Vale. By Mary L. Pendered.

(Heath Cranton. 7s. 6d.)—A very gentle ghost story, involving two spinsters and a lost letter of William Penn's. The strangeness of the forsaken house is convincing, but no one......

' Peacock's Feather. By George S. Hellman. (jarrokls.'...

might be surprised to learn that he was a great lover as well as a wit, and that his hunchback and squint were assumed—he best knows why—to hide his good looks. Mr. Hellman......

Lady Richard In The Larder. By Constance Miles. (heath...

7s. 6d.)—" Holiday reading." THE LAUGHING PIONEER. By Paul Green. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Paul Green's first novel has much of the character of his short stories, but it does......

Sons And Daughters. By Ann Knox. (hutchinson. 7s....

little American Jew, is a more convincing figure than Oonah and the various family of sons and daughters whose affairs he endeavours to regulate. A vigorous and eventful novel.......

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INDIA IN 1930-31 (OFFICIAL HANDBOOK) By the" High Commissioner for India. This indispensable annual, India in 1930-31 (official hand- book), 5s., appears with two new features,......