31 JANUARY 1931, Page 28

Some Books of the Week • NON-norms' : The Personal

Papers of Lord Bendel, edited- by F. E. Hamer ; Missing, by Talbot Baines Bruce ; The Inky Way, by Alice M. Williamson ; By Guess and by God, by William Guy Carr ; The Methods of the Ogpu, by Vladimir Brunovsky ; Recollections of a Bulgarian Diplomatist's Wife, by Anna Staneioff ; An Introduction to Persian Art since the Seventeenth Century, by Arthur Upham Pope ; The Persians, by Sir E. Denison-Ross. FICTION : Flamenco, by Lady Eleanor Smith ; Ragged Banners, by Ethel Mannin ; Night in the Hotel, by Eliot Crawshay -Williams ; Farewell to India, by Edward Thompson ; Rachel Moon, by Lorna Rea ; Tragedy on the Line, by John Rhode ; The Gentle Libertine, by " Colette " ; hey-day, by Anthony Gibbs.