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The Midnight Bell. By Patrick Hamilton. (constable. 7s....

readable novel describes a brief period in the life of a young waiter at a public. house in the Euston Road. " Bob," an ex-sailor, is a youth of mettle and aspiration, who, with......

Ancient Bronzes

Greek and Roman Bronzes. By Winifred Lamb. (Methuen. 25s.) As the Keeper of the Greek and Roman Department at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Miss Lamb is well known to be a most......

Dickon. By Marjorie Bowen. (hodder And Stoughton. 7s....

latest book has for its setting the Wars of the Roses. We know her already as a careful chronicler and a vivid historian, but have never been so much aware as we are now of her......

General Knowledge Questions

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. J. Stothers, J.P., Benmore, Churchill, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, for the......

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iction The English-Hearted Marryat The Novels of Captain Marryat : Peter Simple, Vol. I.: Frank Mildmay, Vol. II. Edited by R. Brimley Johnson. (Dent. 3s. 6d. each.) Is there......

Progress Of Two. By John Kitching. (constable. 7s....

whose progress we are allowed to follow are Hugo Wayne, an engineer in Brazil, and Mavis Buckleigh, who comes to that country as the mistress of John Lopez, having made what she......