Ironical Tales. By Laurence Housman. (cape. Os.)- Mr....
Ironical Tales are all very short parables rather in the manner of those in the Arabian Nights. To read one at a time they are pointed, a little dry, and skilfully turned. But......
Fiction
THE YOUNG DUKE. By Benjamin Disraeli. (Peter Davies. 10s. 6d. net.)-The Duke was so gay, so elegant, so rich, so witty ! And though he reforms in the end, marries an angel and......
The Minister's Daughter. By Hildur Dixelius. (dent. 7s....
is a quiet, natural story of life in Lapland at the end of the eighteenth century. In common with many Swedish noVels, it has a stem and beautiful sim- plicity in the telling. .......
My Life And Times. By Jerome K. Jerome. (hodder And
Stoughton. 16s.).-A kindly memory of Three Men in a Boat, to say nothing of The Third Floor Back, will procure a welcome for Mr. Jerome's amusing autobiography. His times extend......
• The *cubical City. By Jannet Flanner. _ (putnam.
7s. 60.)-The book is well named, for it is 'essentially akin to that modernist school of art which relies Upon bold line and crude splashes of vivid, primitive colour. With its......
The Odyssey Of A Nice Girl. By Ruth Suckow. (cape.
7s. 6d. net.)-The impulse of realism has not yet expended itself in fiction. Miss Ruth Suckow is one of its latest adherents, and she has written two very good, sensitive drab......
The Engraved Designs Of William Blake.
By Laurence Binyon. (Bean. 6s.)—Blake's paintings have been dealt with very faithfully by the late Darrell Figgis ; and Mr. Binyon has now compiled a companion volume of......
A Library List
Biociw'ny :-The Life of James W. Alsop. By his Wife. (University Press of Liverpool. 5s.)-A Playgoer's Wanderings. By H. M. Walbrook. (Leonard Parsons. 10s. 8d.)-Bishop Cassels.......
A Staffordshire Knot. By His Honour Judge Ruegg. (c. W.
Daniel Co. 7s. 6d.)-We could wish that Judge Ruegg had given us accounts of famous trials of his own wide and intimate experience rather than embarking upon a long novel in......
Indian Tales And Others. By John G. Neihardt. (macmillan....
6d.)-The yearning dreams of an ancient race, the primitive passions of love and hate, are gathered together in these strangely moving tales. -For-the first part they tell of the......
Tales From Maupassant. With A Preface By R. B. Cunninghame
Graham. (Nash and Grayson. 7s. 6d. net.)- Maupassant wrote, Mr. Cunninghame Graham reminds us, " without a case to prove, a soul to save, an occasion to improve, or a moral to......
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