Mr. Vowles' The Web Of Finance, Mentioned In This Column
last week, is obtainable from Mr. John Bellows, Gloucester , is. 2d. post free.......
Martha And Mary. By J. Anker Larsen. Trans- Lated From
the Danish by Arthur G. Chater. (Knopf. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Larsen, the author of this unusual and extremely beautiful novel, is a novelist of the first order, and a writer of......
Sir Frederick Maurice's New Book, Governments And War...
6d.) will be reviewed in a later issue. It is an important military work, dealing first with the methods of Lincoln in conducting the American Civil War, and then with our......
We Are Glad To See That Mr. Claud Worth's Yacht
Cruising (J. D. Potter, 21s. net) has peached a third edition, for it is a success thoroughly deserved. The chapter on "The Manage- ment of Yachts in Bad Weather" has become......
The September Number Of St. Martin's Review (6d. Monthly,...
Street, W.C. 2) is devoted entirely to St. Francis, and has an article in it by Miss Underhill which alone would make it a number to buy and keep. The " nature mysticism" of St.......
This Week's Books
, The latest volume of the " Said " series (The Toys of Peace By H. H. Munro, John Lane, 3s. 6d.) is not quite as funny as its predecessors, but the delicious irony and deft......
The Casuarina Tree. By W. S. Maugham. (heine- Mann. 7s.
6d. net.)—These eight stories by Mr. Somerset Maugham all dwell upon English people living in the Malay Peninsula. Each is at once grimly dramatic and yet packed with clear......
Our Contemporary, Country Life, Is Publishing Weekly...
shooting novel by Mr. Cutliffe-Hyne which i3 delightful reading. Good sporting novels are 'rare': this looks as if it would be one. In the same number (August 28th) there are......
A Mouse From The Mountain And Other Fiction
The World of William Clissold. By H. G.Wells. (Bean. 78.6d.) THE publication of the first volume of Mr. Wells' new work has been awaited with unusual expectation—with a kindly,......
Among Recent Reference Books Received, The English...
(56 Whitcombe Street, W. 2) gives all the books issued in the United Kingdom between 1921 and 1925, It is, of course, invaluable to librarians and a mine of informs. tion to all......
A New Publication Is Quebec (6d. Monthly From 88 Kingsway),
which is devoted to the interests of that Province, in Great Britain. There are many interesting features—for instance, a column about a Mr. Smith who admitted to making 119,000......
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