7 OCTOBER 1922, page 21

The October Magazines.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. In the Nineteenth Century Lord Long, in "Why We Should Concentrate on the Empire," puts forward a plea for the closer unity of the British Empire for the......

Fiction.

A STORY OF LA MANCHA.* To talk of Spain and think only of Seville and orange-groves is like identifying England with our pleasant Surrey bower, to the exclusion of less......

Tales Of My Own Country-t

MRS. JACOB'S Tales of My Own Country are quite delightful : they are just what short stories should be—tragic, comic and eerie. She really understands proportion, and each story......

Oneer Nover.s.—the Country Beyond. By James Oliver...

Stoughton. 78. (3d net.)—Further and, if possible, better adventures of the Royal North-West Mounted Police on the northern shores of Lake Superior.—Out to Win. By Roland......

The Contemporary Review.

PROFESSOR ARNOLD TOYNBEE writes on "The Denouement in the Near East." His article is in effect a veiled "I told you so." Professor Toynbee spent some months in Anatolia in 1921,......

The Fortnightly Review.

THE principal feature of this month's Fortnightly is Mr. George Moore's "Apologia pro Scriptis Meis," in which we find Mr. Moore exhibiting his customary blend of blameless sim-......