25 AUGUST 1923, page 20

Children Of The Market Place.t The Critic, And Indeed The

reviewer of books, is supposed to look at literature objectively and to judge it by abstract principles in which prejudice and personality shall have no part. This is a pleasing......

Here And There.*

THE intrepid navigator of the 'Columbia,' Mr. Lewis R. Free. - man,' is not yet content to sit in the chimney-corner and adorn his tale. Last year he tackled the marvellous......

Thoughts On South Africa.* Tax Student Of History Will Find

much of interest in a book on South Africa written in the year 1896 by so great an authority as the late Mrs. Schreiner. The Introduction, however, is dated a few years later,......

Fiction • The Kiss To The Leper.* M. Mauriac's Characters

serve many masters. First of all, morality. The heroine is married to a man whose appear- ance is so repulsive that it is an agony for her to live with him. But she will not be......