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Fiction

Portraiture The Man Who Died. By D. H. Lawrence. (Seeker. 6s.) Small Town. By Bradda Field. (Constable. 7s. 6d.) Full Circle. By Elinor Mordaunt. (Seeker. 7s. 6d.) Guests of the......

Herrin' Jennie. By Edward Albert. (nicholson And Watson....

cannot be said that Mr. }Award Albert has founded or is founding a new mode for the Scots novel. Something there is in him reminis- cent of the Kailyard School, something—though......

In The Brontrs Went To Woolworth's, (benn, 7s. Fid.), Miss-

Rachel Ferguson has written a book about a family's private code of humour : a remarkable feat, very successfully carried out. Mrs. Came, her three daughters, and their dog are......

The Wraith. By Philip Macdonald. (the Crime Club, 7s....

is a really good detective story, exciting, ingenious, and legitimately worked out. Who shot John Manx ? Who eviscerated an those cats ? Anthony Gethryn, his astuteness......

New Novels

GENTLEMEN'S DAUGHTERS. By Margaret Masterman. (Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 7s. fkl.)— Redcliffe is a real school, with real girls and mistresses. There is a little too much local......