26 JULY 1940, page 22

New Novels

THE novel of sensibility easily becomes a bore. Certainly Clarissa has its langueurs ; but we plod on through the heroine's inter- minable examinations of conscience and motive,......

France On The Eve

Kerillis on the Causes. By Henri de Kerillis and Raymond Cartier. (Putnam. 5s.) THE French original of this book was entitled Laisserons-Nous Demembrer la France? and was......

A Traveller In China

Journey Into China. By Violet Cressy-Marcks. (Hodder and Stoughton. 21S.) THE chief value of this book lies in the part dealing with China's Reds—Part IV—and in its concluding......

Self-portrait Of A Bishop

Fifty Years Work in London. By the Right Rev. A. F. Winning- ton-Ingram. (Longmans. tos. 6d.) "Tuts is not an autobiography," say the publishers, and, in the strict sense of the......