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Narcissus In The Way. By Cl. V. Mcfadden. (the Boilley

Head. 8s. 6d. net.)—The opening chapters of this book show considerable promise and the descriptive writing is maintained at a high level of excellence. The book has, in fact,......

The First Voyage.* Ix Casting About For A Subject On

which he shall first exercise his talent, the tyro novelist will obviously choose himself, or some other variation of the genus to which he belongs, thus building his first......

Other Nove1.3.—dormant Fires. By Gertrude Atherton. (john...

net.)—A story of San Francisco society in the 'sixties. With her great and accustomed skill Mrs. Atherton paints the moral and social conditions then prevailing in that wicked......

Poets And Poetry.

ON ENGLISH POETRY.* Mn. ROBERT GRAVES'S book On English Poetry is one of the most remarkable works on pure Aesthetics that has appeared for a long time. Its faults are......