Sweet Danger. By Margery Allingham. (heinemann. 7s....
Campion; of Police at the Funeral, continues his roles of " Universal Uncle and Deputy Adventurer," combined with several others, and the village of Pontisbright -gees life (and......
The Giant Swisaa. By W. R. Burnett. (heinemann. 7s. 6d.)—mr.
Burnett leaves his gangsters for the unexpectedly simple story of Joe, an illiterate young dance-hall pianist who writes a successful light opera and rises to fame. Traditional......
The Man Wrrime. By Graham Greene. (heinemann. 8s....
three brilliant-novels, The Man Within, The Name of Action, and Rumour at Nightfall, are now obtain- able in this, cheaper edition.......
Mrs. Barry. By Frederick Niven. (collins. 7s. 6d.)-. Mrs....
brings home the infinite distance between true pathos and false. It is no more than the tale of a Glasgow• widow now desperately poor, who takes lodgers and lives for her......
It's Up To You. By E: L. Grant Watson. (noel
Douglas. 7s. 6d.)—" It's up to you,' said the girl, ' to find out about me and what I'm up to.' " That is straight off the jacket ; but any reader with proper curiosity will......
Seven By Seven. By Hans Duffy. (gollancz. I S , Sd.)
—Miss Duffy makes delightful comedy of the doings of Lady Cadmium and her assorted children in these hard times that drive people to close down their country houses and take to......
A Man Or Paint. By Alan E. Porter. (herbert Jenkins.
7s. 6d.)—Have you ever heard of the noble young parvenu who feels himself unworthy of an even nobler girl, and who wins through all sorts of tribulations to her rewarding kiss ?......
Monsoon. By Wilfrid David. (hamish Hamilton. 7s. 6d.)...
combines spotlights on European sophistication with sidelights on; the Indian . problem. His. book has a tiring kind of brilliance due largely to startling adjectives, and we......
The Mere -lavism. By B. Bergson Spiro. (gollanez. 7s....
four parts of this second-by-second chronicle, Breakfast Time, Lunch Time, Tea Time, and Dinner Time, are positively cluttered with sensations rather than thoughts. Miss Spiro......
The Pilot Comes Aboard. By Will Levington Comfort....
6d.)—This is an unusual sea story. Roger Drayton meets adventure of every kind, and as bo'sun and captain sails many seas ; but the chief interest of the story remains in his......
Fiction
By L. A. G. STRONG. 7s. 6d.) MR. ALINGTON'S new novel, his fourth, must surely establish his pOsition. It has all the merits of its predecessors, with an increased solidity of......
Further Fiction
A STREET raz Moscow. By Ilya Ehrenbourg. (Grayso n . 7s. 6d.)—In the Protochny Street live down-and-outs of ev er , kind, from ci-decant aristocrats to a hunch-backed fiddler.......
Finale. By Winifred 'duke. (jarrolds. Ts. 6d.)--finale...
begun in Bastard Verdict The Dark Hill, and The Sown Wind. It is a 'tragic picture of the weakling Leonard 'Du Cane, who inherited his father's bad qualities, married the wrong......
To Dream Again. By John Fisher. (dent. 7s. 6d.)— Mr.
Fisher contrives an adroit variation on the young-man. in-the-South-Sea-I5lands theme, bringing his Hubert Coleman back after thirty years to dream again-a boastful, romantic......
The Scandal Monger. By Emile Gavreau. (john Long. 75. 6d.)—a
brilliantly horrible book about the scandal columnist of a mythical New York paper. As a story it is rapid and. exciting ; as an expose of a particular journalism it is not new......
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