Post-war Pirate. By Stephen King-hall. (methuen. 7s. 6d.)...
of a modern, sea-going Robin Hood are rattling good fun. The author's amusing trick of reinforcing his absurdities with solemn technical detail is delicious and disarming.......
Puck In Petticoats. By Margaret Behrens. (herbert '...
6d.)—Admirers of Mrs. Behrens' work will welcome once more the vain, imaginative Percy Sid and • the shrewd and pretty Ellen, now his wife. The maze of intrigue into which......
It Is Astonishing, In Retrospect, How Superficial One's...
places turns out to be. or rather how altogether different from the contacts made -by another. Certainly- Miss Woods' account in The Other Chateau Country (John Lane, 18s.) of......
Loona. By Norman Walker. (longman. 7s. 6d.)—this...
biologist and a mermaid is better ' than a cheap wrapper with a cheaper pun upon it would lead one to suppose : but it proves that even artlessness can be embarrassing.......
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Hall, 18s.) has both the qualities and the defects of being written by an enthusiast. It contains a great deal of valuable material, together with some which is of very little......
The Irish Beauties. By E. Barrington. (cassell. 7s....
sprightly fashion of the highly success- . ful, pre-marital skirmishings of two poverty-stricken, eighteenth-century Irish beauties. An adroit mixture of truth and fiction.......
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vivacious but sentimental story, with a conventional society background, about an earl's daughter who becomes a shop assistant and finds romance among the haberdashery.......
Zodiak. By Walther Eidlitz. (hamish Hamilton. 7s. 6d.)...
blend of symbolism and realism encumbers this dramatic story of a Greek peasant who exchanges the Mediterranean tradition for the new and strident spirit of the machine age.......
Beginners Please. By Dion Clayton Calthrop. (chapman And...
6d.). Theatrical or Bohemian life in pre-War London is the well-worn theme of this , disconcerting mixture of fiction and autobiography. Plot and characterization are thin, but......
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language alternating between sentiment and facetiousness. For such, one may confidently recommend Jungles Preferred, by Dr. Janet Miller (Putnam, 12s. 6d.). The author describe......
The Opening Of A Door. By George Davis. (hamish Hamilton.
7s. 6d.)—The door which Mr. Davis opens allows the reader to see, with uncommon clearness, into the life of a middle-class American family. An impres- sive debut : more will be......
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