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The Love Book. By Gertrude De S. Wentworth- James. (werner

Laurie. 2s. 6d. net.)—Miss Wentworth- James, after explaining that all love into which sexual attraction enters is indecent, gives us a hundred pages of advice on the technique......

Sporting Pie. By F. B. Wilson. (chapman And Hall. 15s.

net.) It is to the amateur clubs that we look for the truest vin- dication of cricket as an exercise and as an art. Mr. Wilson, whose record in amateur games has been notable,......

Some Books 01? The Week.

( Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) New anthologies of poetry, to be valuable after so many years of anthologizing, should represent rather......

Oundle's Story. (london : The Sheldon Press. 4s. 6d.) Most

of us have only heard of Oundle because it was there that the late Mr. F. W. Sanderson (whom Mr. H. G. Wells has called " one of the greatest teachers and statesmen that the......

The Life Of Sir Arthur Pearson, Bt., C.b.e.

By. Sidney Dark. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. Od. net.) Having had twenty years of acquaintance with his subject, and at least ten .years of considerable intimacy, Mr. Dark has......

Stonecrop. By Cecile Tormay. (philip Allan. Os. Net.)—...

of Miss Tormay's new novel is wonderfully appro- priate. The arid conditions which it suggests arc the spiritual hall-mark of the book itself. Her story of Vella, a Croatian......

The Broken Signpost. By Sydney Tremayne (john Lane. 7s. 6d.

net.)—Blossom, the beautiful Italian orphan, runs away from Tregaviskey (Cornwall) and becomes a cinema star. She gambles, accepts motor-cars from her admirers, and steals pearl......

Other Novels.

AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY. By Gerard Hopkins. (Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hopkins, having purged his mind of Oxford, now takes us through London's Bohemia. A wonderful......

Easy Experiments In Science. By Herbert Mckay, B.sc....

Press. 2s. 6c1.) Not since the publication of the late Mr. F. W. Sanderson's Hydrostatics have we chanced upon so beguiling an elementary science book as that before us, a......

Change Partners. By Horace Annesley Vachell. (hutchinson....

astonishingly old-fashioned novel reads as though it must have been produced not later than the penultimate decade of the last century. It concerns two wives who are so......