25 AUGUST 1928, Page 17

Some Books of the Week

DURING the past month the books most in demand at the rimes Book Club have been :—FicTiow.—The Shadow of Guy Denver, by Stephen McKenna ; Beau Ideal, by P. C. Wren ; The Female of the Species, by " Sapper " ; Father and Daughter, by Elinor Mordaunt ; Perishable Goods, by Dornford Yates ; Eliza for Common, by 0. Douglas ; Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall ; Money for Nothing, by P. G. Wodehouse ; David and Diana, by Cecil Roberts. NoN-FicTioN.—The Strange Necessity, Essays by Rebecca West ; The Enormous Room, by E. E. Cummings ; Heading for the Abyss, by Prince Lichnowsky ; Great Britain in Egypt, by Major E. W. Poison Newman ; Policing the Top of the World, by Herbert P. Lee ; Station : Athos, Treasures and Men, by Robert Byron.

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