29 MAY 1920, page 20

The Deserted Basement.*

Warns° very gaily on " Servants " in the London Mercury, an essay to which we have referred before, Mr. Max Beerbohm says what many of us have been thinking. Our thoughts,......

Secrets Of The Sea.*

Ma. BUCHANAN'S former work, to which this interesting volume is a sequel, was entitled Comptes Rendus. His present book is called Accounts Rendered, thereby reminding us of the......

Fiction.

THE TALL VILLA.t THE idea of a woman finding consolation for the delinquencies of a living husband in the companionship of a spirit lover is a theme which craves wary walking.......

The Art Of Sniping.*

IT is said that the recent " slump " in war books is now over and that the public is beginning to read this sort of litera- ture again. Certainly Major Hesketh-Pricharil's......