6 AUGUST 1927, page 23

The Magazines

MR. FORD MADOX FORD'S fanciful and amusing article " Pax '' stands first in the Nineteenth Century. Humorously, yet with an undercurrent of very serious meaning, he deprecates......

Green Forest. By Nathalie Sedgwick Colby. (.jona- Than...

6d.)—The scene is staged on board a liner in the passage between New York and Cherbourg. The little world of the passengers is ably described and the American heroine is an......

Fiction

Manchurian Memories Tinker's Leave. By Maurice Baring. (Heinemann. 7e. Cd.) To forestall such rather unimportant controversies as have been waged in the minds of critics over......

Tracks In The Snow. By Lord Charnwood. (benn. 7s. 6d.)—this

is a detective story, and, as such, is above the average. But it has other virtues that are seldom found in mystery novels. The action turns upon the murder in 1896 of Eustace......

Sylvia Of The Minute. By Helen R. Martin. (john Lane.

7s. 6d.)—In spite of its absurdities, this is a very entertaining little story. It gives an excellent picture of the Pennsylvanian Dutch, a section of the population of America......