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No Child Could Object To This Guide, Which Is Sufficiently

friendly to be trusted and provides enough background to prevent the headache often contracted during aimless wandering. The book is more or less a menu. with eight well- chosen......

Fiction.

KATHERINE MANSFIELD. Something Childish. By Katherine Mansfield. (Constable. 6s.) KATHERINE MANSFIELD was at heart a sentimentalist ; but her experience was so varied, her......

Shorter Notices.

Wembley is only one, thoug h to-day the most conspicuous, sign of the Empire's self - consc iousness. This book is another ; and we suspect that the vision of Wembley led to......

Crime, In Which He Delights, And Attempts To Interest His

readers in a business romance. Although his accomplishment as a story-teller can never be questioned, it must be acknowledged that he seems rather more at home when dealing with......

An Architectural Pilgrimage In Old Mexico. By A. C. Bosom.

(New Work : Scribner.) Those who have been beguiled into the right frame of mind for the full appreciation of the Rococo by reading Mr. Sacheverell Sitwell's Southern Baroque......