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Just Between Us Girls. By Lloyd Mayer. (double- . Day

Page).--=This hectic heroine, who talks in capitals (" My dear, I'm Simply WEAK with WOE and could gargle butter- milk," and so on ad infinitum), is very good fun when we see a......

Fiction

The First Story of First Love OF Longus, who wrought the imperishable pastoral of Daphnis and Chloe, there is no biography. Even his name is a mere conjecture. He was, perhaps,......

Christian Morals. By Sir Thomas Browne. Edited By S. C.

Roberts. (Cambridge University Press. 6s.)— The pamphlet of religious maxims and considerations which is here reprinted does not give us Sir Thomas Browne at his roundest or......

Trencher And Kennel: Some Famous York- Shire Packs. By...

Simpson, R.I. (The Bodley Head. 42s.)—This is not the first feast that Mr. Simpson has served to the hunting community, and no one is likely to quarrel with the fare provided.......

Current Literature

JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS, 1927. Edited by Dr. Oscar Parkes. (Sampson Low. 42s.)—In these so-called " piping " days of peace, war-like -books or books with war-like names would......

General Knowledge Questions

THE prize of one guinea, which the Editor offers each week for the best thirteen general knowledge questions, has been awarded this week to Miss Gertrude E. Kebbell for the,......