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Nami So. By Kenjiro Tokutomi. Translated From The...

P. Putnam's Sons. 6s.)—It would be obviously unfair to judge this book by the standard of Western fiction, even were the inevitable non-conductor of a translation not a further......

The Woman Errant. By " The Commuter's Wife." (macmillan...

6s.)—People who have an old-fashioned prejudice in favour of a book being either "fish, flesh, fowl, or good red herring" had better avoid the new book by the author of the......

And Entrusts The Role Of The Fairy Prince To A

shopkeeper's undersized and ill-favoured son, but he indulges, before starting on the story proper, in a preface of thirty-three closely printed pages of Meredithian bravura on......

C Urrent Literat Ure.

MR. ST. JOHN LUCAS'S POEMS. Poems. By St. John Lucas. (A. Constable and Co. 5s. net.) —Mr. Lucas overlays his thought, of which he has at least a more than passable supply, with......

The City Of Mystery. By Archibald C. Gunter. (ward, Lock,

and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Gunter has a good story of adventure to tell in this book, and he tells it with his own accustomed wealth of italics, capitals, and notes of exclamation. It is......