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Current Literature

THE COMING OF COMMUNITY By W. T. Symons Tr anyone wishes to know about the Social Credit Move- ment associated with the name of Major Douglas (The Corning of Community, by W. T.......

The Faerie Queene—vols, Iv, V, Vi And Vii - By

Basil Blackwell Volumes IV, V, VI and VII of the monumental edition of Edmund Spenser's work have recently been issued by the Shakespeare Head Press and . Mr.. Basil .Blackwell.......

The Criterion.

The current number of The Criterion (edited by T. Faber, 7s. Cid.) contains an interesting study of Friedrich von Hiigel by Miss Evelyn - Underhill, in which she : considers his......

Saint Michael's Children. By Martin Beliehn-...

Lymburn. (Harrap. 7s. 6d.)—It is strange that many .writers have not made stories about the adventures of the children who followed the Pied Piper from Hamelyn, and a pity that......

The Quarterly Review

A political revelation of no small interest is made by is Edgar Dugdale from Lord Balfour's papers in the Quarterly Review for January. It relates to " The Wyndham-frfac-......

New Novels

RHYMER'S WAKE. By Mary MacCarvill. With Frontis- piece by John Keating. (Murray. 5s.)—The wanderings of Peter the Rhymer, who made the songs of the people and sang them at Irish......

Tom Creagan. By Dermot Barry. (hamish Hamilton. 5s.)—this...

though slight and tentative in treatment, shows that younger Irish writers are in in- creasing revolt against the idea of violence. Tom Creagan, a student, is swept by generous......

A Whip For The Woman. By Ralph Straus. (chapman And

Hall. 75. 6d.)—In his story of the making of a book, Mr. Straus tells us what happens " in the novelist's attic, the publisher's palace and the reviewer's semi- detached villa,"......

97 O- • ' — By Professor Frandescci Beige - Kr It

cannot be said that Prof. Franceteo -Berger'S bodk, " 97" (Purnell, 3s. 6d.), will delight his contemporaries, because he has none ; but it will sive an hour's pleashre and......

The Floating Admiral. By Certain Members Of The Detection...

(Hodder and Stoughton. -7s. 6d.)— Here is a book for the connoisseur of detective fiction. It has an introduction by Miss Dorothy Sayers, a prologue by Mr. G. K. Chesterton, and......