29 SEPTEMBER 1928, Page 19

Some Books of the Week

DURING the past month the books most in demand at The Times Book Club have been :— Nox-Ficriow.—Memories and Reflections, by the Earl of Oxford and Asquith ; Roamin' in the Gloamin', by Sir Harry Lauder ; The Duchess of York, by Cynthia Asquith ; Rasputin, the Holy Devil, by Rene ; Charles Dickens, by Ralph Straus ; Europe, by Count Hermann Keyserling ; Oddities : A Book of Unexplained Facts, by R. T. Gould ; Goethe : The History of a Man, by Emil Ludwig.

FicrioN.—Joshua's Vision, by W. J. Locke ; Mr. Bletts- worthy on Rampole Island, by H. G. Wells ; The Children, by Edith Wharton ; Youth Rides Out, by B. K. Seymour ; Nor Many Waters, by Alec Waugh ; The Lively Peggy, by Stanley Weyman ; The Laslett Affair, by " A Gentleman with a Duster " ; The Havering Plot, by Richard Keverne ; Poor Women, by Norah Hoult.