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In Dark Places. By John Russell. (thornton Butterworth....

net.) There is very little to be said of this volume except that it is more or less on the same level as Where the Pavement Ends. " The Bird of Paradise" is the most successful......

Fiction.

■ -•0111■••• A REVERSION TO TYPE.* JIM AVIOLET was good for nothing. He drank, spent money in other undesirable pursuits, and wandered about the world as a Remittance Man. On a......

A Powerful Story Of A Romance Which Creates Havoc In

the family of the middle-aged hero. The author's last novel, The Fortunate Woman, was perhaps more successful as a whole, but, if the achievement is less, the artistic aim of......

Mr. Cole, Whom Hitherto We Have Been Accustomed To Connect

with Guild-Socialism and economics, has suddenly broken out as a novelist. The Brookhin Murders is a long and highly exciting detective story. The idea is ingenious. Old Sir......

El Supremo. By Edward Lucas White. (fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d.)

This is a striking and original novel, sufficiently so to excuse its seven hundred odd pages. The hem is Francia, the beneficent tyrant who in the early part of the nineteenth......

Poets And Poetry.

MORE POEMS BY A LITTLE GIRL. Mena CONKLIN°, the author of Poems by a Little Girl, must be, if we may judge from the photo g raph which is a frontispiece to her new volume, Shoes......

Some Distinguished Americans. By Harvey O'higgins,...

net.) While, perhaps, not quite so brilliantly successful as the author's last collection of stories, entitled From the Life, these imaginary biographies are extremely well......