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Recent Short Stories,

Mn. STEPHEN CRANE grows, and this is no small thing to say of a writer who sprang fall-armed on the public with his first book. When it transpired that The Bed Badge of Courage......

On The Threshold Of Central Africa. By Francois Coillard....

from the French and edited by his Niece, C. W. Mack- intosh. (Hodder and Stoughton. 15s.)—M. Coillard, who has spent more than thirty years in Africa, is a missionary first and......

Current Literature.

Cider and Perry. By C. W. Radcliffe Cooke, M.P. (Horace Cox.) — Mr. Radcliffe Cooke, by his spirited advocacy of cider and perry as wholesome drinks, has done a real national......