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Shorter Notices

The Eastern Marshlands of Europe. By H. G. Wanklyn. (Philip and Son. 125. 6d.) Tits book is the result, the author tells us, of nine years' spare- time study—" the outcome of......

Finance And Investment

By " CUSTOS " WHATEVER the main motive force may be—the news from Syria, President Roosevelt's freezing order, or just weight of money— stock markets are decidedly good. In......

The Night Is Long. By Sarah Gertrude Millin. (faber Iss.)

MRS. MILLIN'S book is described as " the autobiography of a person who can't sleep." The theme of her insomnia is apparently expected to provide the framework of the book. It is......

Fiction

IN an essay on Ronald Firbank E. M. Forster wrote " . II critics had not their living to get they would seldom handle any literary fantasy. It makes them look so foolish." How......