7 JANUARY 1928, page 27

Fiction

Incompatible Novels November Night. By the Author of " The House Made with Hands." (Arrowsmith. 7s. 6d.) Benn. 7s. 6d.) OF these five novels only one is worthy of remembrance.......

The Magazines •

Two months ago the Nineteenth Century published an article entitled " The Vatican, France, and L'Action Fran- caise," by Mr. W. W. Longford. Between the writer of the article......

Current Literature

. :HENRY ALKEN. By Walter Shaw Sparrow. The first volume of the series " The Sport of Our Fathers." With an introduction by Sir Theodore Cook. (Williams and Norgate. 21s.). 7......

The Arunta : A Study Of A Stone Age People.

By Sir Baldwin Spencer and the late F. .1. Gillen. (Mac- millan. 2 vols. 36s.)—Working among the aborigines of Central Australia a generation ago, Messrs. Spencer and Gillen......