22 SEPTEMBER 1923, page 15

Books.

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. MESSRS. 110DDER AND STOUGIITON have sent us the first two volumes of their new series, The Nations of To-day. The preparation of this new history of the world......

The Theatre.

THREE PLAYS. "OUR BETTERS," BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM• GLOBE.—" AMBUSH," ARTHUR RICHMAN, GARRICK. —"LONDON CALLING," DUKE OF YORK'S. To lash gilded vice is the playwright's most......

The Farington Diary.*

THE second volume of Farington's diary will be welcomed by all those who read with interest and amusement anecdote and gossip about great people in the past. Farington himself,......

(the Usual "recreations Of London" Will Be Found On P.396.)

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