3 NOVEMBER 1928, page 105

Fiction

Ancient Earth Mom than one novelist has of late observed the unity , of time by confining the action of his story Within" the limits of a (last; Miss Mary Borden has reduced the......

• Hero Of Her Latest Historipatromance The Holy_lroiriari...

COUrfabibuirg: IdealiStie7 diCainy, and remark- ably moral for his period, Maximilian was the greatest monarch in Europe during the transition from the Renaissance to the......

All Abroad. By H. W. Yoxall. (faber And Gwyer.)- This

is the thoroughly diverting tale of a revolution that did not come off in San Benito, a small new Central American Republi c. ; To the bright - fountained -, baroque little......

The Crouching Beast. By Valentine Williams. (hodder And...

7s. 6d.)-Written in the form of a narrative by an English girl who, staying in a German garrison town shortly before the War, becomes involved in the adventures of a British......

Out Of Drawing. By Marius Lyle. (howe. 7s. 6d.) -mr.

Lyle presents us with a three-sided study of a young American artist of genius. We see Aloys Staine through her own eyes, and also through those of her Spanish husband and an......

A Library List

BIOGRAPHY :-The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavio. By Sarah Fielding. Edited by R. Brimley Johnson. (The Scholartis Press. 7s. 6d.)-Anastasia : The Surviv"r of Ekaterinburg ? By H.......

General Knowledge Questions

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best Questions sub- mitted is awarded this week to Mr. H. Elrington, The Holt, Hook, Hants., for the following :- 1. Name the oldest Yacht......