27 APRIL 1929, page 29

Fiction

Deeps and Shallows The Mountain Tavern and other Stories. By Liam O'Flaherty. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.) Destinies. By Francois Mauriae. (Seeker. 7s. 6d.) *. LIAM O'FLAirererv, as......

The New Countries. Edited By Hector Bolitho. (cape. 75....

volume contains a selection of short stories, with a sprinkling of poems, by Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African authors. Mr. Bolitho includes writers, like......

Shipmates. By " Taffrail." (hodder And Stoughton. 7s....

novel Shipmates is hardly a success : it is too disjointed and rambling. The flimsiest of plots merely serves as a pretext for a series of vivid scenes in the careers of three......

The Fire-spirits. By Paul Busson. (heinemann, Ts....

from the German, is a romance of the Tyrol in the days of Napoleon. Peter Storck is a young Austrian, who, hearing that his uncle has died in his Tyrolese hermitage, suspects......

Theresa. By Arthur Schnitzler. (constable. 7s. 6d.)...

one bright moment in this gloomy " chronicle of a woman's life " : truth there may be, but there is no single glimmer of beauty. We meet Theresa at the age of sixteen, just......

General Knowledge Questions

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to F. K. Fell, Holy Trinity Vicarage, Whitehaven, for the following :- Questions on......