28 JANUARY 1928, Page 20

During the past month the books most in demand at

The Times Book Club have been :-- FicTiox :—Iron and Smoke, by Sheila Kaye-Smith ; Novem- ber Night, by the author of The House Made With Hands ; The Unburied Dead, by Stephen McKenna ; Adam and Evi, by John Erskine ; Caste, by Cosmci Hamilton ; The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by T. Wilder.

Now-FicrioN :—The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol. III., 1879-1885; edited by George Earle Buckle ; Positible Worlds, and other Essays, by J. B. S. Haldane; The World Crisis : A Criticism, by Lord Sydenham and others ; Leave: from My Life, by Sir Herbert Barker ; I Escape, by Capt. I. L. Hardy.

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