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Fields Of Sleep. By E. Charles Vivian. (hutchinson. 7s. Gd.)

This is an original book. The plot, the situations and the adventures refresh the jaded novel reader.......

Some Plain, Some Coloured. By J. J. Bell. (hodder And

Stoughton. 7s. 6d.) Can stories be convincing and incredible ? These arc, and they are delightful into the bargain.......

The Tale Of Thomas Truelove. By Anno Topham. (melrose). 7s.

Gd.) The Tale of Thomas Truelove. By Anno Topham. (Melrose). 7s. Gd.) The scene is laid in England and France at the time of the French Revolution. The atmosphere is homely and......

By Ernest Rhys And C. A. Dawson Scott. (thornton Butter.

worth. 7s. 6d. net.) An anthology of short stories by various distinguished authors whose names guarantee the quality of their work. It will be liked by those readers who do not......

Malaya : The Straits Settlements And The Federated And...

Malay States. Edited by R. 0. Winstedt. (Constable. 12s.) This is primarily an instructive book (as its unattractive get-up seems designed to warn the reader), but it makes much......

Fiction;

MR. HUTCHINSON : A TRIBUTE. Tim only way to write for a certain public is to think for that public : and the only way to think for the masses is to think as the masses would......

Travel And Topography.

Sea-Tracks of the `Speejacks' Round the World. By Dale Collins. (Heinemann. 21s. net.) Mr. Gowen celebrated his honeymoon in true American fashion. He set up a new record by......

The Favourite Strong, Silent Man Of The Female Novel Is

prominent in this novel of adventures in the Algerian Desert. Thirty and One Stories. By Thirty and One Authors. Edited......

Famous Scottish Burghs : Their Romantic Story. By George...

(Heath, Cranton. 30s.) Scotland is essentially a country of romantic townships. Its heroic memories, here and there set down by such writers as Scott, Galt, and Stevenson,......

Sailor Town Days. By C. Fox Smith. (methuen. Gs.)

A pleasant little book about all kinds of ships, docks, junk stores, and the topography of Dockland, by the lady whose sea songs are well known to readers of the Spectator and......

Marriage. (hodder And Stoughton, Ltd. 7s. Ed. Net.) A...

of short stories round this central theme. It contains one tragic story by Mr. Hergesheimer, an attractive, sentimental story by Miss Mary Stewart Cutting, and a study of a dull......

Unwire. . . 7s. 6d. Net.) • This Book Is Concerned With

a revolution in England, the beginning and end of which are rather vague. The incidents, however, are exceedingly exciting.......