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The Subtle Trail. By Joseph Gollomb. (heinemann. Is....

of this detective novel consists in the discovery of a new motive for crime, a new method of com- mitting crime, and a new method and motive for detecting it. The murderer and......

* * * * Mr. Hugh Copley's The Letters Of

Two Fishermen (Warne, Os.) rings the changes on the catching of coarse fish in the English Midlands and strange fish in Nigeria with angling for heavyweights off the Lagos......

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We suppose that Lionville as a caption to the frontispiece is what one might expect of a book entitled The Roaring Veldt, by Gretchen Cron (Putnam's, 21s.). It is really......

The Empire Parliamentary Association Has, As We Know,...

but it has not hitherto performed any such valuable service as has now been furnished by the local Branches in the Union of South Africa together with Adminis- trations of other......

The Well Meaning Young Man. By Luise End Magdalen King-hall.

(Herbert Jenkins. 7s. 6d.)—Wholly inoffensive, with a gay good humour rare in books of the kind, this diverting account of the surprising adventures of a modern young innocent......

General Knowledge Questions

Ora weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. P. H. Sitters, 9 Dobraeina ulica, Belgrade, for the following :— Questions......

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......

The July Issue Of The International Labour Review...

articles of importance. M. Ulrico Aillaud explains the Act on the National Council of Corporations in Italy, a most necessary task in view of the constant vicissitudes of the "......

Some Books Of The Week

WE admit to being surprised that Ancient Rites and Ceremonies, by Grace Keith Murray (Alston Rivers, 10s. 6d.), should have reached a second edition. What Mrs. Murray's public......