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W. N. P. Barbellion.. By Richmond H. Ile113-ar. (leonard

Parsons. (3s. net.) - - Tim introspection, confessions, and comments upon life of "W. N. P. Barbellion " (Bruce Frederick Cummings) are by no means forgotten ; he will continue......

Satirical Poems. By William Mason. Edited By Paget...

Press. 42s. net.) IT is exciting to have a mystery cleared up ; and, except for the specialist, that is the main interest of this volume. William Mason was a man of cultivation,......

Ships That Pass In _the Night _ Clubs. By Gurney,

Slade.. (Cassell and • Co. 7s... . 6d. net,)—So thorOtiOly - entertaining andViccissfUl a light - novel as this is all too seldom published. The reader is forced to smile On the......

Autumn Fires. By Phyllis Hambledon. (sampson Low. 7s....

action passes chiefly in the country and concerns two elderly. brothers who on their _father's death succeed to his, wealth, which he has kept entirely in his Own hands during......

A Book Of English Verse Satire. Chosen By A. G.

Barnes. (Methuen. 4s. 6d. neL. ) THERE is very little modern literature on English satire, and Mr. Barnes' modest selection from thirty poets is welcome. Matthew Green is not as......

Loaded Dice. By Marten Cumberland And B. V. Shann. (methuen.

8s. 6d. net.)—A thriller concerned with a subject dear to the Spectator—the invention of an admirable process of coal carbonization. This new process , promises to be so......

. The City In The Sea. By H. De Vere

Stacpoole, (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d. net.)-7,-Mr. de . Vere Staepoole has abap. doned the tropics and betaken himself to the picturesque Isles of Greece. It is an original idea in......

The High Forfeit. By Basil King. (i-iodder And Stoughton....

6d. net.)—A very interesting American book dealing with the misalliance between the daughter of the millionaire president of a bank and one of his clerks. The psychology of......

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BLOWN BY THE WIND. By C. A. Dawson Scott. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d. net.)—Novelists often would convince us' that life in the Pacific islands. or in Cornwall, is much more......

The Emigrants. By John Bojer. (hodder And Stoughton. 7s. 6d.

net.)—An interesting account of the emigration of a group of Norwegians to North Dakota a generation ago. The local colour is excellent.......

Tile ...celebrity's Daughter, The Doll, The Last Ditch,...

By Violet Hunt. (Stanley 3s. 6d. lief.)- 7 -These reprints of four of Miss Violet Hunt's novels bring; together, not before it was time, some oi'The a- very remarkable woman:......