29 DECEMBER 1923, page 20

This Story May Be Described As An Account Of An

aggressive parent and of the modern method of dealing with her. It may be doubted whether anybody was ever quite as unpleasant as Lady Bullyn.......

The Sensations Of One Who Has Not Previously Met Mr.

Tighe in literature must be, upon reading this book, those of extreme amazement. He is like a mercurial Mr. Arnold Bennett. Seen ' from another angle it is like watching a......

Sky-line Inn. By D. Hamilton Haines. (eveleigh Nash And...

7s. 6d.) ' Sky-line Inn,' in the foothills of the High Sierras of Cali- fornia, has been bought in a moment of enthusiasm by Theophile Gelas. Unfortunately it is a dozen miles......

These Are Short Stories Of English Country Life, Told With

great charm and simplicity. They are practically all stories of frustration, and though the writer prefers to stay on the surface of her characters, and not to pierce very......

The Street Of The Eye.t

ONE main difference between the novel and the short story is the question of treatment, and not mere . length. Most English writers use the short story much as they use a.......

Virginia. By Carlton Dawe. (ward, Lock And Co. 7s.) The

story of the beautiful lady who has a brute of a husband and of sheer boredom goes to a night-club, and causes a riot, from which she is rescued by the bronzed colonial. Their......

The Trail Of The Hawk.*

IF there were such a thing as an ideal type of American it could be said that Mr. Sinclair Lewis has taken his dimensions very handsomely indeed. The prototype of that......