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Irish Stories

My Countrymen. By an Irishman. (Blackwood. 7s. 6d.) AN Englishman who reads a light book about Ireland is too apt to spoil his pleasure by a serious intention. He cannot help......

Fiction

Many Perspectives To the Mountains. By Anthony Bertram. (Knopf. 8s. 6d.) IT is a critic's confession of failure when he says that the charm of a book is indefinable, for a good......

New York Department Stores

FRANCES DoNovAN was a teacher in a large Public School in Chicago. In order to get a first-hand knowledge of the life of girls who work in department stores she spent her long......