Saint In Ivory. By Lorine Pruette. (appleton-...
has obviously made a close study of the scene and period, allows her imagination to play round the personality of St. Genevieve of Paris, who was the Joanol Arc of the fifth......
The Belated Reckoning. By Phyllis Bottoinc. (collins. 7s....
McDermott, at the age of forty-two, left Bournemouth she, had no idea what the world was like. "She didn't even read the Daily Vision, so she had no idea of what it wasn't like.......
The Magazines
Tin: X ineteenth Century publishes as its first article "Time Documents in full which deal with the inquiry initiated by certain American University Professors" on "The War......
A Friend Of Antaeus. By Gerard Hopkins. (pur.k* Worth. 7s.
6d.)—This is an exceptionally clever -novel of its kind. Readers who like swift narrative and thrilling incident should avoid it, even though a vein of mystery gives lt,. 2......
Blue Tiger Yard. By Charles Landstonc. (faber And Gwyer. 7s.
6d.)—As an authoritative and particularly well written study of Jewish temperament this novel deserve; the highest praise. Aaron Lakarin, an illiterate Pole, comes to London and......
Fiction
A NEW book by Edith Wharton is always an event, for she is seriously and graciously an English as well as an American novelist. If Henry James taught her much, the strong, rich......
Fairyhood. By Clare Scarlett. (stanley Paul.
7s. 6d.)—" Fairyhood," so we gather from the author, is a state of mind or spirit, a "natural partnership with the spirit of mercy and beauty militant here on earth . . . . a......
The Door Unlatched. By Marie Cher. ((erald How. 7s....
Marie Cher has chosen a difficult subject, but she has avoided many of the traps that lie set for those who tamper with time. A young man is haunted by the counterpart of......