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Fiction

ADAM- IN MOONSHINE. By - J. B. Priestley: - (11 e . mann. 7s. 6d.)—As an essayist, Mr. Priestley has so frequs s ' lifted the. thin curtain which screens the world of magic f......

Shakespeare's Heroes

ENTHUSIASTS of the heroic period in English life and literature will follow the Machiavellian couple of lion and fox through the perplexing ways of Mr. Wyndham Lewis's book with......

Bernard Quesnay. By Andre Maurois. Transla From The...

Brian W. Downs. (Cape. 7s. 6d., M. Maurois' new book is a story of the post-War years 19 and 1'920, when a wounded but exhilarant Europe turr from war to industry. The Quesnays,......

The Economic History Review. Vol. I. (london : A. And

C. Black. 10s. 6d. net.)—We welcome the first annual volume of the Economic HiStory Society. It contains general articles on its own subject by Sir William Ashley and Professor.......

Current Literature

GUY DE MAUPASSANT : A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY. By Ernest Boyd. (Knopf. 21s.)—Mr. Boyd's new life of Maupassant shows a thorough knowledge of the subject, a 'sense of proportion and......

Go She Must 1 By David Garnett. (chatto And Winds&

7s. 6d.)—The author of Lady Into Fox again gives us an ori, and individual story, though its plot is conventional eno Anne Dunnock is the only child of a widowed and eccent......

• Year Book Of Agricultural Co-operation In The Brit1sii...

(Routledge. 10s. 6d.)— . - The Horace Plunkett Foundation, from which this admirable book proceeds, is likely to produce a good harvest for very many years. It will carry on the......

The Book Of The Galtees And The Golden Vein :

a Border History of Tipperary, Limerick and Cork. By Paul S. Flynn. (Hodges and Figgis. Dublin.)—Mr. Flynn's book is one for Irish readers, but it ranks far above the ordinary......

. Mortal 11slage. By Elinor Wylie. (heinema 7s. 6d.)—miss...

Wylie has re-created Shelley, or rat she has snatched his drowning liody from Italian war and granted him new loves and adventurous journeys America. The machinery she has......