10 JANUARY 1920, page 21

The London Mercury (2s. 6d. Net) For January Is Very

pleasant reading. Mr. A. Clutton-Brock writes well "On Blake as a Prophet," and Mr. Roger Ingpen has some new things to say about "Shelley and his Publishers." Mr. J. C. Squire,......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in thiii column does not necessarily precisure subsequent review.] The National Review contains a noteworthy article by Sir Harry Stephen on the Government of India Act,......

Readable Nover.s.:l.8enjy. By George Stevenson. (john...

a touch reminiscent of Charlotte M. Yonge in Mr. Stevenson's latest work, which is the biography of the very large family of a country doctor. Though the reader may become......

My French Year. By Constance Elizabeth Maud. (mills And...

10s. 6d. net.)—Miss Maud went to France late in 1917 as a delegate of the Red Cross. She travelled far and saw much in the war zone, and she records her impressions in this......

Mesopotamia, 1914-1915. By Captain H. Birch Reynardsoii....

author served in the 17th (Ahmednagar) Brigade of the Sixth (Poona) Division, which opened the Tigris camfaign in November, 1914. He recounts the operations up to the battle of......

The Spider Web. By P. I. X. (blackwood. 10s. 6d.

net.)— This well-written and highly interesting book describes the work of the flying-boats which from their base at Felixstowe patrolled the North Sea and dropped bombs on 'U......

Fiction.

SUSIE.* THE way of a man with a maid is on good authority ranked amongst the three wonders of Nature. Mrs. Dowdall in her diverting romance makes out a strong case for adding......