26 FEBRUARY 1921, page 21

Fiction.

TWO NOVELS BY MR. EDEN PHILLPOTTS.* OF the two last products of Mr. Eden Phillpotts's pen The Bronze Venue claims prior attention, in virtue of its deviation from his usual......

Persuasion And Education. * Doss The Reader Think He Has

too trusting a disposition ? Let him read Mr. Macpherson's book and be put on his guard, for here he will find anatomized the types who so repeatedly and so successfully "......

The Merchant Navy In The War.t

Tim official or semi-official history. of the war at sea is being issued in three sections. We have already noticed the first volume of Sir Julian Corbett's history of the naval......

Studies In Islamic Poetry.*

NOT many Orientalists are qualified to pronounce a weighty judgment on the absolute value of the literatures with which they deal. If their tastes are literary and not merely......