6 OCTOBER 1923, page 23

Mr. Locke At His Best I His Admirers Will Applaud

to the echo.......

Smith, V.c., Gentleman Rider. By Edgar Jepson. (herbert...

(id.) Two women are equally in love with " Smithy," and no wonder, for " the Gentleman Rider " has real charm. He could be happy with either—and finds himself " in a devil of a......

If Anyone Wants To Give A Present To A Child

let him give this. The squirrels in the story lire, yet they arc not little people masquerading, but wild animals in the good green wood. Mr. Thomson Seton, however, knows their......

The October Magazines.

The Nineteenth Century. The Nineteenth Century opens with an article attacking " Democracy," by Mr. G. H. Bonner. He complains that we allow ourselves to be ruled by phrases and......

Fiction.

AUSTRALIA.* IF one of the chief emotions produced in me by Mr. Law- rence's new novel is that of exasperation, it is the exasperation of an admirer and not of an enemy.......

Rosamund. By Lord Goren. (john Murray. 7s. 6d.) This Is

a book about good, gentle, scrupulous people, who live on the bright side of life. Nevertheless, there is a certain realism about it and it is interesting.......