The Call Of The Island. - By Charles L. Warr.
(Robert Grant. 7s. 6d.)—Here we have a book of Celtic ghost stories ; some are a little horrible but none are alarming enough to rob even the most nervous of their sleep. " The......
Readers Who Have Themselves Perpetrated The Practical...
third-rate verse upon gullible friends, and of representing it as a quotation from Shakespeare or Browning, will find amusement as well as instruction in Mr. I. A. Richards'......
Above And Below. By R. D. Dorthy. (seeker. 7s. 6d.)
—Several times lately the events of a single day have been assembled to make a full-length novel, and now the author of Above find Below has made a further experiment in the art......
King Log And Lady Lea. By Alyse Gregory. (constable. 7s.
8d.)—There is an undoubted quality about Miss Alyse Gregory's work, but it is a little disturbing. As we try to disentangle the psychological and emotional relationships between......
The. King's Candle. By Temple Thurston. (putnam. 7s....
who is apt to be too discursive in his novels, handles the short story very successfully. In these thirteen tales he gives us a considerable variety: of theme and treatment ;......
Eileen Of The Trees. By H. De Vere Stacpoole. (cassell.
7s. 6d.)—A bare summary of the plot of this novel must inevitably render it injustice. Pat Spence is a boy of seventeen, who is heir to a fortune. His mother being dead and his......
Some Books Of The Week
Duamin the past month the books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been :.— Ficrionr.—AU Quiet on the Western Front, by E. M. Remarque, is still the book most in demand......
The Adventures Of Ralph Rashkigh (jonathan Cape, 7s. 6d.) Is
the story of a convict sentenced to transportation in 1825, of how he served part of his sentence, and the adventures he had before the remainder was remitted. He was the only......
There Is Special Significance In A Report On Native...
(Government Printer, Port Moresby), by Mr. F. E. Williams, Government Anthropologist in the Territory. of Papua. It proves that the local Government is trying to approach the......
General Knowledge Questions
Ova weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. Charles Spurrell, Fro Wen, Carmarthen, for the following :- Questions from......
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