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Good Sir. John. By Phoebe Fenwick Gaye. (seeker. 7s....

the successor to a brilliant first novel is dis- appointing,.but Miss Gaye has more than fulfilled the promise of Vivandiere, and her account of " the rise and fall of Sir John......

Europa's Beast. By. R. H. Mottram. (chatto And Windus. 7s.

6d.)-There area sober grace and sensitiveness in this book which raise it high above the normal output of love stories, though love story it uncompromisingly is, perhaps......

A Library List

REFERENCE Boors :-The Cathedrals of Great Britain. By P. H. Ditchfield. New Edition. (Dent. 7s. 6d.)- So You're Going to Germany and Austria ! By C. E. Laughlin. (Methuen. 10s.......

A Flock Of Birds. By Kathleen Coyle. (cape. 7s. 6d.)-miss

Coyle's work has quality : it has atmosphere too, but of so rarefied a nature that not all readers will be able to survive it. Her story, dealing with the actions and reactions......

Fiction

Art and Propaganda IN refusing to join the Rationalist Press Association, Thomas Hardy once said that imaginative writers " are misread as propagandist when they mean to be......

Moorland Terror. By Hugh Ilroadbridge. (thornton...

in this book a number of characters who may be described as human cliches. There is, for instance, an absent-minded Professor, who forgets meals while he watches birds. There is......

General Knowledge Questions

-OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best-thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Major H. E. Irwin, Upper Woolwich Farm, Rolvenden, Kent. Questions on Surtees'......