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The Depths Of Prosperity. By Phyllis Bottome And Dorothy...

(Collins. 7s. 6d. net.)—Miss Phyllis Bottome has taken to herself a colleague and transferred the scene of her novel from England to America. It cannot be said that this is a......

Upstairs. By Mrs. Victor Rickard. (constable. 7s. 6d....

almost insinuating, opening to this story will give the reader very little idea of the excitements which are before him. Upstairs is, indeed, that rare product, a murder and......

Out Of The Blue. By " Sapper " (h. C.

McNeile). (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—It must be owned that these stories are not a little commonplace. The first one certainly contains a most modem development in......

Other Novels

The Nightingale (A Life of Chopin). By Marjorie Strachey. (Longinans, Green and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Whether the real life of a distinguished man is happily described in the form......

The Rector Of Maliseet. By Leslie Reid. (j. M. Dent

and Sons. 7s. &I. net.)—The author himself is not certain enough of the central motive of his story for this book to be very convincing. The reader will not be sure, even at the......

Finance-public And Private

BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY IT will not be possible until next week to state with precision the City's final judgment on Mr. Winston Churchill's first Budget. I am writing on the morning......