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Three Against The World. By Sheila Kaye-smith. (chap- Man...

Hall. 6e.)—There is no need to recommend Miss Kaye-Smith: she has made for herself already a name and a disceniinF, if not large, circle of friends. But we cannot pass over her......

Relda.blb Novels.—the Sorcerer's Stone. By Beatrice...

6s.)—This truly thrill- ing story, or rather succession of stories, concerns the finding and keeping of a great diamond, and is free from any irrelevant love interest. —The......

Bedesman 4. By M. H. Skrine. (duckworth And Co. 2s.

6d. net.)—We should have thought it impossible to add to the crowd of school stories one of original design. Yet such a one has just made its appearance in the " Roadmender"......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading se. notice such Books of the leech as Caw no1 hot rverwd for renew in other Jones.] The Evolution of the Olympic Games. By F. A. M. Webster. (Heath, Cranton,......

Chignett Street, By B. Paul Neuman. (smith, Elder, And Co.

6s.)--The writer : 1d phignett Street has the unusual dis- tinction or knowing whet he is talking about. To Mr. Neuman the London street arab is not a picturesque type, nor a "......

Natural Philosophers Should Have Had To Wait More Than Two

centuries for a copious biographer. The "father of chemistry and uncle to the Earl of Cot-k" is perhaps adequately com- memorated by the fact that, in English-speaking......

Fiction.

THE FEAR OF LiviNG.t „ Trr3an are few more remarkable developments in contern- potary French literature than the reaction against, the cult which Matthew Arnold described......