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The Perfect Murder Case. By Ghristopher Bush. (heinemann....

a man informs Scotland Yard and the newspapers that he intends to commit a murder, and even tells them the time and neighbourhood chosen for the crime, the chances are largely......

The Father. By Katharine Holland Brown. (heine. Mann. 7s....

was clever of Miss Brown to choose such a moment for writing such a book. Just now, when even the most highbrow among us are tired of novels with a purpose and novels without a......

The Inconsistent Villains By N. A. Templ E Ellis...

6d.)-The most incorrigible thrift. hunter will find ample scope for the indulgence of his passion in this book which has won first prize in Messrs. Methuen's detective novel......

The Conquering Star. By Barbara Goolden. (chapman And...

6d.)-Miss Goolden here concludes her series of studies of post-War society. Some of her.previous characters reappear. The plot turns upon the love of Una Rowan for Bertie Maby.......

The Crime At Tattenham Corner. By Annie Haynes. (bodley...

7s. 6d.)-A corpse is found in a ditch near Epsom on the eve of Derby Day. The body is identified as that of Sir John Burslem, a financial magnate and popular owner of......

Shepherd Of Israel. By Leonora Eyles. (con- Stable. 7s....

all the many recent novels dealing with Biblical or historical figures, this interpretation of Moses is by far the best. That is not to say that it is wholly satisfying ; there......

Little George, By G. F. Bradby. (constable. 6s.)- Very Few

writers could have made the story of Little George into anything but a silly and sentimental book, but Mr. Bradby escapes both these evils by virtue of his peculiar insight into......

Hucca's Moor. By Ruth Manning Saunders. (faber And Gwyer....

ad.).-The tragedy of Zephan Wall, a half- idiot pedlar is that his ludicrous ambitions only accentuate his poverty of mind and body. His patient wife, Deborah, is housekeeper to......

A Library List

misem,ANEous :-The Christ of Apostolic Faith. By H. T AndreWs. (Nisbet. 5s.)-The Gospel According to Judas Iscariot. By E. S. Bates. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) -The Secret of the Cure......

Answers To Questions On Philosophy

I. The Athenian philosopher, Solon to Croesus, King of Lydia (sixth century D.c.).-2. (a) Socrates (fifth century D.c.), (b) Plato who defended his master in the Apology.-3.......