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A Passionate Rebel. By Pamela Wynne. (philip Allan. 7s....

Wynne is not very successful in her modern version of The Taming of the Shrew. In fact, the criticism which was once applied to one of Disraeli's novels that it was written by......

The Pagoda. By Marjorie Bowen. (hodder And Stoughton. 7s....

expect of " best-sellers " certain stock types of character. This time Miss Bowen has chosen, with Touraine for the background, the elderly widow who is still hungry - for......

The Blessing Of Pan. By Lord Dunsany. (g. P. Putnam.

7s. 6d.)-Since Lord Dunsany is a scrupulous artist, with much fine imagination, one often wonders that he so seldom secures the entire sympathy of his reader. From his gem-built......

A Library List

BIOGRAPHY :-Cromwell. By John Drinkwater. (Hodder and Stoughton. 2s. 6d.) - Eighty Years : Soldiering- Politics-Games. by General Sir Neville Lyttelton, G.C.B. (Hodder and......

Kitty. By Warwick Deeping. (cassell. 7s. Ad.)- " Highbrow "

readers who like modem problems and Freudian psychology will do well to leave Mr. Warwick Deeping's novels alone. On the other hand, those who like a warm human interest......

Flamingo. By Mary Borden. (heinemann. 7s. 6d.)- Miss Mary...

has surpassed herself ; and the con- struction of her newest and best novel is very unusual*. She begins by showing us pictures of New York and London, the former " a portrait......