Middle Mists. By Aishie Pharall. (fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d.)
The heroine, returning . to England after some hectic months of Peace-Conference Paris, marries, without passion, a flawless specimen of the English Gentleman, and spends the......
Fiction.
LOVE'S PILGRIM.* Mn. J. D. BERESFORD is hardly as successful in describing the amatory passions as in dealing in a prophetic vein with Revolution in England. It is difficult to......
Pagan Corner. By C. M. A. Peake. (methuen. 7s. M.)
Polly Brent bad a witch for a mother, and came of a family of squatters, people who live in their own communities in out of the way moorland corners of England, and are regarded......
A Guide To Roguedom.*
WE must confess to being somewhat disappointed by the underworld that Mr. Felstead shows us in this new book of his. Mr. Thomas Burke, of Limehouse fame, and others had led us......
Mr. Benson Tells Us That This Book Is The First
part of a romance which is to be continued in a later volume. The story deals with the old English family of Stonier, whose Elizabethan ancestor sold to the devil, not only his......
The Reincarnations Of Lupus Andronicus. By Adolphe Orna....
7s. 6d.) A group of people are connected, in each of their four suc- cessive incarnations, by varying circumstances or family ties. The periods range from early Scythia, through......
7s. 6d.)
The love of an Italian for the Irish wife of an absent English husband should not be a dull subject, and by completely subordinating everything to the two main characters the......
Phantom. By Gerhart Hauptmann. (seeker. 7s. Gd.)
The story, written in the first person, of a yoUng school- master's infatuation for a beautiful little girl and his conse- quent degradation. Finally, his evil courses land him......
The Torrent Is The Old Story Of The Conflict Between
duty and impulse ; between family tradition, bourgeois caution, reputa- tion,and comfort on the one side, with la vie de Bohente, rapture, spontaneity, danger, and beauty on the......
Lass Of The Sword. By C. E. Lawrence. (murray. 7s.
6d.) It is extraordinary that a living writer should be able to escape from his twentieth century environment of intellectual scepticism, moral cynicism, and nervous unrest ;......
Anderby Wold. By Winifred Holtby. (the Bodley Head. 7s. 6d.)
This is a good first novel, for the author has a strong sense of situation that should make her successful were she to attempt a play. She writes a serviceable but......
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