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Fiction

How Much Artist ? AFTER reading these books one realizes how impossible it is to say exactly what a novel is and how much " pure novel " any novel contains. It is simpler to......

Popular Science

Master Minds of Modern Science. By T. C. Bridges and H. B. Tiltman. (Harrap. 7s. 6d.) Modern Science and the Truths Beyond. By Abb4 Th. Morel's. (Browne and Nolan. 50.) THESE......

Late Of London Wall. By Bruce Norman. (arrosv- Smith. 7s.

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Stanton. By Desmond Coke. (chapman And Nail. 7s. 6d.)—it Has

been well said that a faithful account of public school life would be dull. Mr. Coke is not dull, but, to one 'e.t.a master st least, he seems to have dis- covered °their forms......

New Novels

CONCERNING PETER JACKSON AND OTHERS. By Gilbert Frankau. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.)—" So Eva Carroway cantered down the lane . . . and Peter, collarless. in his oldest coat and......