5 JANUARY 1929, page 29

More Books Of The Week

(Continued from page 21) In The Best Poems of 1928 (Cape, 6s.) Mr. Thomas Moult makes his " seventh yearly harvesting " of verse from periodicals in Great Britain and the......

Balladry And Paganism

Folklore in the English and Scottish Ballads; 'By L. C. Wimberly. (Chicago and Cambridge Universities' 25a.) • . • • As the greatest edition of our English and Scottish ballads......

Even The Artificial Eighteenth Century Bred Its Passion...

the most unfading of these is the exquisite story of Marion Lem-aut. Suddenly written by that indifferent churchman and zealous translator of Richardson, l'Abbe Prevost des......

The Magazines

The Nineteenth Century opens with Mr. Neville Chamberlain's defence of his own derating scheme. He points out that equity, even more than expediency, is the aim of his Bill ; he......

Fiction

THE PARTRIDGE. By Elizabeth Murray. (John Lane. 7s. 6d.)—The three dominant personalities in this book are John Moreton, successful in business but suffering from repressions of......

The Bird Of Time. By Constance Wakeford. (the Quota Press.

6s.)—Miss Wakeford's new book might have been written by an earnest schoolgirl ; it is full of the sineerities, sentimentalities and assumptions of youth. It is all very well......

Mixed Relations. By Victor L. Whitechurch. (senn. 7s....

has read the last two books by Mr. Whitehouse will expect a high standard of detective story from this author, and Mixed Relations is from this point of view disappointing. It......