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The Marriage Craft. By D. H. S. Nicholson. (cobden-...

O. net.) A party of typical human beings—as the average novelist understands types—sets out in a barge with the avowed purpose of talking out the problems of sex and......

Other Novels.—the Man In The Brown Sidt. By Agatha Christie.

(John Lane. 7s. 6d.)--Miss Christie really, succeeds in her new literary melodrama in making the reader feel quite uncertain of the identity of the villain till the mystery is......

Finance-public & Private.

[BY OUR, CITY EDITOR.] GERMAN LOAN AND RUSSIAN TREATY. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — There is just sufficient anxiety with regard to certain aspects of the financial......

Unless Biographies Of Artists Are Treated In An Original...

they seldom make interesting reading matter, for it is not often that a painter's life is any more colourful than that of the average clerk, grocer or navvy. When the biography......

Shorter Notices.

THE CAMBRIDGE ANCIENT HISTORY. Edited by J. B. Bury, S. A. Cook, F. E. Adcock. Vol. 'II. The Egyptian and Hittite Empires to 1000 B.C. (Cambridge University Press. 35s. net.)......