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The Adventures Of Captain Ivan . Koravitch. By Victor L....

(Blackwood. .7s. 6d. net.)—Captain Kora- vitch is an officer and gentleman of the Imperial RUssian Army who'arranges his life in convenient wartime episodes, fights on his......

The Reluctant Impostor. By Muriel Hine. (lane. 7s. 6d:...

this agreeable if conventional love story Miss _Muriel Hine has used with some skill the hackneyed imbroglio brought about by the impersonation of the dead. In this case the......

Fiction

ENGLISH FAMILY LIFE The Sinclair Family. By The Hon. Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton, D.B.E. Quince Alley. By Mrs. Henry Dudeney.. (7s, 6d. net.) ... _f THERE are moods and emotions......

One Dreamer Who Awakes. By E. Shaw-cowley. (john Lane.. 7s.

6d. net.)—Christine Stacey, a charming and cul- tured young woman, left stranded by the death of her only relative, becomes a violinist in an hotel orchestra, and later the......

- Novels'

Cobbler, :Cobbler and . Other Stories., By C. Henry Warren. (Faber and Gwyer. 7s. 64.)—in this colleption of short atbries Mr. C. Henry Warren 'describes, for.the most part,......

Reference Books.—the Official Year Book For The Church Of...

1926. (S.P.C.K. 3s.) Contains a mass of useful inforniation and the " Who's Who of the Church Assembly " has been brought up to date and includes all members of the new Houses......

The Backsliders. By Edgar Jepson. (herbert Jenkins. 7s....

Jepson has a keen sense of the comic and, apparently,, an inexhaustible fund _ of high spirits ; and in this book he his allowed both to run away with him, and in different......

Cross Lode. By Edward D. Fraser. (castle. 7s. Od. Net.)—a

work of exceptional merit, Mr. Fraser's story of - David' Grant; artist, egotist and sensualist, is in 'the modern manner and stresses unduly the unseemly aspects of life.......