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Recaptured. By Colette. Translated By Viola Gerard...

6d.) Colette's delicacy of touch makes the intimate workings of woman's mind, which she perceives finely, endurable to the sensitive woman and comprehensible to the courageous......

The Rule Of Three. By Eliot Crawshay-williams. (gollancz....

of a film star who rehearses, before the camera, the part she plays in real life. The book is redeemed from dulness by the neatness of its rather stagey dialogue.......

New Novels

TI'HURIEL'S HOUR. By Joanna Cannan. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.).—Ithuriel learnt all about "pukka Sahibs" when he watched a Himalayan climbing expedition and saw the two men......

The Slow-grinding Mill

Miss ODDIE'S life of Marie Louise is to all intents and purposes a novel. We do not say this in order to throw doubts upon the accuracy of the narrative, but to exalt its human......

Fiction

Grave and Gay Mr. and Mrs. Pennington. By Francis Brett Young. (Heine. mann. 88. Gd.) Folk by the Sea. By Johan Bojer. (Cobden Sanderson. 7s. 6d.) Mn. BREIT YouNG's new novel......

Flash-back. By Cyril W. Beaumont. (c. W. Beaumont....

recalls his childhood with detail and delight, but sometimes with a pomp which takes the bloom off his circumstance.......