6 NOVEMBER 1926, Page 37

The London Scene (Faber and Gwyer, 12s. 6d.) offers the

spectacle of Mr. Lewis Melville's pleasant easy pen fllumin- ating some of the myriad facets of London life—high life, . low life, idle life (especially that), working life, but all of it vivid life. Some pvnels of the scene are pictorially presented by Mr. Aubrey Hammond, who is not perhaps in his happiest ,

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