A Study Of A Rather Overbearing Young Man. His Marriage
and his career are both blatantly successful. A love affair, subsequent to his marriage, shows him to be entirely common- place when he is not actually vulgar. The authors have......
Children Of The Dawn. By Mary Carbery. (heinemann. 78. Ad.)
A romance of early Ireland. The period is left a little uncertain, but Cretans, Greeks, Welshmen, and representatives of many of the other famous ancient civilizations of the......
Vanderdecken. By H. De Vere Stacpoole. (hutchinson. 7s....
new novel of the Pacific, not very likely to affect in either sense the number of Mr. Stacpoole's admirers. Indeed, he would be a subtle epigrammatist who could say in a short......
B.b. Of Ardlegay. By W. H. Rainsford. (john Lane. 7s.
tkl.) A comedy of rural life and the complications of village relationships. B.B. comes to be tried for murder and is a little hurt by the anti-climax, which ends his notoriety......
M. Montfort's Delightfully Easy French Is A Joy To A
foreigner weary of struggling with M. Proust. As a satirist he reminds the reviewer of Miss Macaulay, but he is a great deal more besides, and his descrip- tions of Paris in......
Anthony John. By Jerome B. Jerome. (cassell. 78. Ed.) This
is the Jerome not of Three Men in a Boat, but of the Passing of the Third Floor Back. Anthony is successful in everything he touches, from love to business, but at last he is......
Tales Of The Jazz Age. By F. Scott Fitzgerald. (collins.
7s. Od.) Of the stories, fantasies and " unclassified masterpieces " (as the author facetiously terms them) contained in this volume the most considerable derive from 0. Henry.......
Fiction
THE RIDDLE AND OTHER STORIES.* CATLIKE, Mr.- de in Mare's genius haunts places. Of the fifteen stories in this book, only one can be said to lack his abnormally acute sense of......
The Desert Horizon. By E. L. Grant Watson. (cape. 7s.
6d.) The principal character in this novel is the Australian Bush. It is at the same time sinister and seductive, and it effect on civilized persons is quite remarkable. The......
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