Coloured Glass. By Inn'es Hart. (rich And Cowan. 7s. 6d.)
The Vicar's wife again : this time young and stupid, and in love with somebody else, so that tragedy follows hard upon her marriage with the elderly James. This portrait of......
Green Stockings. By Mrs. Fred Reynolds. (bodley Head. 7s....
A very charming crinoline story, about a young wife who nearly forgets herself. Decorous and subdued as are Mrs. Reynolds' characters, they move vividly through the garden......
The Lily Field. By Constance Rutherford. (hodder - . And...
Gd.)—A competent story of Henry V's campaigns in France. Its chief characters are a soldier and a little Parisian girl, and the crowded life of the time, as they see it, is......
The Dnenchanted Circle. Rupert Latimer. (nicholson And...
Latimer wants us to know that stodgy, unimaginative people who live in Knightsbridge are not really stodgy and unimaginative at all. Those who would- like this point settled......
The Gold Rim. By Irene Rathbone. (dent. 7s. 6d.) The
author of We That Were Young tells of a really credible spinster who engineers coincidences for an equally credible, if more ordinary, young couple who do not know their own......
Immortal Mummy. By Christine Orr. (hodder And Stoughton....
A nasty young Edinburgh free-lance discovers the Father (deceased) of Scottish Drama, writes him up for all he is worth, and finds he had made a bad mistake. Miss Orr's satire......
Say Au R'vom But Not Goodbye. By M. P. Shiel.
(Benn. 9d.) By an elliptical, close packed manner of writing, the author of this Ninepenny has managed to say as much in forty thousand words as most people say in ninety......
Dinner At Night. By R. J. White. (hodder And Stoughton.
7s. 6d.)—The material advance of Arthur Gale, from high-tea circles to those which have dinner at night, symbolizes both his own development and the rise of villa-dom. Arthur......
Fictio N Dir L. A. G. &sorra, .
PRAISE be for a book which is really funny, and for satire so good-natured that it does not want to alter what it ridicules. England, Their England is the story of a young man......
Henry And Emma. By John Newlands. (jenkins. 7s. 6d.)—a...
tale of a simple-minded Cockney couple, who lived in a-cul-de-sac, won some money in a sweep, and longed for honest poverty again. The wit is a matter of misplaced H's ; but......
Pebbles In The Posen. By Joseph Cabot. (ham'sh Hamilton. 7s.
6d.)—An original and highly diverting novel about an assortment of people, less unconnected than they seem to be, ranging from a spoilt young woman to a small boy at a "prep."......
Further Fiction
NOBODY STARVES. By Catherine Brody. (Collins. 7s. 6d.) The slump of 1929, as it affected factory workers in Detroit. Miss Brody's story of Molly and Bill is both an individual......
Twos And Threes. By Barbara Wootton. (howe. 7s. 6d.)—miss...
twos and threes are, so to speak, pairs and triangles, in the accepted fiction sense of the words. Her stories, ordinary enough for several pages, have here and there a sudden......
Knights Of The Moose. By J. M. Denwood. (hutchinson. 7s.
6d.)—A tale of the Scottish border ; midnight raids, abductions, cattle-stealing, and a dramatic reconciliation between Dacre and Buceleuch.- High romance, with plenty of......
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