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Princess Bibesco's New Book Of Short Stories Is Not Par-

ticularly distinguished. There is an effect of effort and of affectation. The dedications, single studies, or stories, each to a separate person—M. Marcel Proust. Mr. Harold......

Mr. Fisher Unwin Has Added To His First Novel Library

a sentimental account of the reactions of a young married girl. it claw not go particularly deep, but it is romantic and pleasant. The heroine begins life as the child of an......

Fiction.

A GREAT STORY.* Ma. AND Bias. Woor-r have done well to publish Andreev's superb short story, The Dark. It will not appeal either to those who regard fiction as a mild relimation......

Merton Of The Movies. By Harry Leon Wilson. (john Lane.

7s. 6d. net.) Merton Gill worked in Amos Cashwiler's emporium in Simsbury, Illinois. At night he worked even harder on his correspondence courses in cinema acting. But he was as......

\ The Arts.

The popular attitude towards modern art is changing. We hear less of the explosive wrath that accused moderns of inability to draw, of mental disease, of the desire to shock,......

Eight Chapters On English Mediaeval Art. By E. S. Prior.

(Cambridge University Press. 6s. net.) Ever since the publication of his History of Gothic Art in England in 1900 Professor Prior has been known as the cham- pion of English......