6 APRIL 1929, page 25

The Shepherd And The Child. By John Owen. (gollanez. 7s.

6d.)—Mr. Owen has achieved something of a miracle in his new book, for he has brought the banal and the sublime so close together that we are hard put to distinguish one from......

The World Does Move. By Mr. Booth Tarkington. (heinemann....

ad.)—The novelist meditates the profound alterations in society since he' was a young man in the New York of the " nineties," and a resented author in his mid-west town. He......

The Magazines

THE first article in the Nineteenth Century is written by six hands on a much discussed subject, " The Censorship of Books." Lord Darling believes it possible to administer......

Fiction

GRAZIELLA. By A. de Lamartine. Translated by Ralph Wright. (The Nonesuch Press. 12s. 6d.)—Th is example of the liquid eloquence and the, pleading grace. of Lamartine, within its......