23 AUGUST 1930, page 25

Fiction

THE BRIEF HOUR. By H. du Coudray. (Philip Allan. 7s. 6d.)—It is not really part of a reviewer's business to beg the reader's patience on behalf of an author, but Miss du......

The Blackthorn Winter. By Philippa Powys. (constable....

selected some romantic material for a first novel, in which she tells the story of Nancy, a country girl, who, unable to resist the charm of a gipsy, deserts her blacksmith......

Out Of Step. By Derek Walker Smith. (gollanez. 7s. 6d.)—this

is a first novel of considerable power and promise treating of school life as seen by a modern but exceptionally sensitive boy. The hero takes himself with a delicious pomposity......

An Experiment In Sincerity. By John Erskine. (putnam. 7s....

beginning of Mr. Erskine's latest novel is both interesting and original. Isabel and Winthrop have been married for some years and are quite comfortably settled. In a moment of......

A Fatal Campaign

THE full story of the Greco-Turkish War in Asia Minor, from 1920 to 1922, has not yet been told, for it would discredit too many Western Governments. But the reasons why the......