5 APRIL 1930, page 21

Claus The Fish, By The German Writer Hermann Rossmann (peter

_Davies, 8s. 6d.), is an extraordinary sea-story : as queer arid startling in its miniature wayas is Moby Dick on the grand scale. It deals with the adventures of a wierd web-......

Some Books

of the Week Ma. E. W. HENDY'S second collection of nature essays, Wild Exmoor Through the Year (Cape, lOs. 6d.) is just as good as his first, The Lure of Bird-Watching, which we......

In One Of The Essays Which Compose Calm Weather (chapman

and' Hall, Os.), Mr. Gilbert Thomas confesses that he was at school neither an athlete nor a scholar. That is as much as to say that he is no specialist, or not, at least, on......

Thomas Hood And Charles Lamb ( Benn, Los. 6d. )

make a delightful pair. Mr. Walter Jerrold has a reason for thus coupling their names. The greater part of the book consists of Wood's " Reminiscences," and he remembers many......

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The Competition

Tim Editor of the Spectator offers a prize of £5 5s. for the best County Story. Stories must not exceed two hundred words in length. The Editor reserves the right to publish any......