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Tarzan, Lord Of The Jungle. By Edgar Rice Flurroughs....

7s. 6d.)—In this further series of breathless adventures, the ape - man once more proves himself the " sheik of sheiks," exercising his autocratic but benignant influence to......

Sir Timothy Eden, The Biographer Of Five Dogs And Two

More (Longmans, Green, 7s. 6d.) tells us that " they cannot fairly be appraised above the rank and file of their kind. They are—or were—in fact, quite ordinary dogs." Alas ! for......

In Canon Raven's Charmingly-phrased Exposition Of His...

Way, Martin Hopkinson, 7s. 6d.) we learn that he is not an Anglo - Catholic, nor an Evangelical of the old :type, though, of course, he shares many orthodox beliefs. Out of the......

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In A Christmas Book (dent, 6s.) We Have A Medley

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The Empress Of Hearts. By E. Barrington. (harrap. I's....

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A Sincere Writer, and an Historic Charlatan Cagliostro. A Novel by Johannes Von 'Guenther: Translated by Huntley Paterson. -(Heinemann. 10s. 641.) Dewdrops. By Margaret Kennedy.......

The Log Of Bob Bartlett (putnam, 15s.) Is, As The

author Captain Bob Bartlett says, " a simple yarn of a plain man who has seen a lot of life in queer ways." The author has no literary tricks ; he writes with the directness of......