24 JULY 1926, page 38

Tiis Days Madness. The • Author - Thi

3ettles," asked Letty Monekton on her twentieth birthday what people ought to like ? " "Those, my dear, who a te best informed on the question at issue," was the tiresome reply......

The Work Of Ernest Newton

THE active career of Ernest Newton covered forty-three years, and his work was always typical of the best that was being done in any one of them. It was intensely English and......

Fiction

THE HOUSE IN CHARLTON ..CRESCENT. BY Annie Haynes. (Bodley Head. 7s. 6d. net.)--There is little to say about this novel except that it is a good and startling Murder story, and......

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CATHOLIC REUNION. By Viscount Halifax. (Mowbray and Co. Is. 6d.) Loan HALIFAX has issued a pamphlet containing an address on Reunion which is marked by his deep piety and......

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Four Years .Beneath the Crescent. By Raphael de Nogales. (Scribilers. 12s. Bd.) - • An Escaper's Log. By D. Grinnell-Milne. (John Lane. 7s. ad.) Tlik:SE two books are both about......

The Six Senses For Scouts, By .- J. ,t. Gorman.

(C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd. 2s.) . . . 'This is an admirable little book of instruction designed to show how the senses may be sharpened by intelligent practice. The "sixth sense"......

The Green Machine. By F. A. Ridley. (noel Douglas. 7s.

6d. net.)—The great scientist and explorer, Jinks, travels to Mars on an unspecified kind of machine—at any rate, there are not details enough for anyone to hope to repeat the......