Wet Afternoon. By Geoffrey Moss. (hutchinson. 7s. 6d.)—a...
stories, some long, some feuilletons, none very brilliant and most of them a curious mixture of idealism and sophistication. -......
Current Literature
PETER BUSSELL, master-mariner, was kept a prisoner of war in France at Arras, Amiens, Besancon and the Loire country for the eight years 1806-14, and his Diary (Peter Davies,......
The Devil Man. By Edgar Wallace. (collins. 7s. 6d.)— Mr.
Wallace's fidelity to the story of Charles Peace gives to his characters an unusually human quality of inconsis- tency, without detracting from the charm and subtlety of his......
Murder Party. By Henry Bordeaux. (gollance. 7s. 6d.) —here A
good " long " short story is spoiled by being dragged to novel length. The author shows how a game of" Murders" can give a real murderer opportunity - for crime.......
Readers Of The First Volume, By The Late Dr. Robert
Ren- wick, of the History of Glasgow, which appeared ten years ago, may well have despaired of seeing a fresh instalment of the work which is, very properly, a Glasgow municipal......
The Swan Island Murderg. By Victoria Lincoln. (cassell....
strangled Portuguese, a gibbering lunatic, a murdered playwright and a corpse in a wood-box provide thrills for the characters in the book and for those readers who can stand......
Fiction
New Novels A NOVEL which makes you muse over it, and which seems to let down roots into life, so that musing over the book and considering life seem much the same thing, is a......
Every Man And Woman In England, And In Fact In
the world, should read Mr. Henry Ford's new book, which he has written in collaboration with Mr. Sginuel Crowthr. In these days of depression, which is now being felt by all......
The Lady And The Mute. By John Lindsey. (chap- .
man and Hall. 7s. &I)—A queer, beautifully-written book about village life. It contains ghastly descriptions of tortured animals and people and is dedicated to the thoughtless......
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