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Grace Latouche And The Warringtons. By Marjorie Bowen....

Blount. 7s. 6d.) A subtle essence of Victorianism pervades these " nineteenth century pieces," and there are many signs that Miss Bowen has enjoyed the writing of them. She is......

The Magazines

THE financial crisis, India, and the farmer's plight, here and elsewhere, naturally form the main themes discussed in the September reviews. The suddenness with which the......

Major Grant. By Carols Oman. (hodder And Stoughton. 7s....

Oman has introduced so much wit and irony into her new book that even readers inclined to be bored by historical novels will find it difficult to maintain their prejudice after......

Saint Johnson. By W. R. Burnett. (heinemann. 7s....

who can appreciate the dialect, which appears to be necessary for the telling of any tale that contains a cowboy, will enjoy the story of Wayt Johnson and his adventures as......

Fiction

Romance and Realism Judith Paris is the second volume of what it may one day be proper to call the Herries Saga. There are to be several volumes more. A work of such magnitude,......