The King Against Anne Bicimrton. By Sidney Fowler....
6d.)—This book is described as being by an author whose books " in a different field of fiction have recently achieved enormous popularity." It is a fairly well- written story......
The Noose. By Philip Macdonald. (collins. 7s. 6d.)— We Must
congratulate the Crime Club on the detective story which it has selected for May. The Noose has all the elements of a good detective story, and it has more besides ; for every......
For Over Half A Century The Society For The Protection
of Ancient Buildings (20 Buckingham Street, Adelphi, W.C. 2) has been carrying on its. work, and its fifty-third Annual Report (28. 6d.) is informing and encouraging. Private......
Since One Of The Major Needs Of The Day Is
the explanation of France to the United States and vier versa (France as re- presenting the type of European culture which may be expected to resist most successfully "......
Tales. By August Strindberg. (chatto And Windus. 3s....
a very handsome addition to the Phoenix Library. The tales were published in 1903 after Strindberg had written The Father, Miss Julie and There are Crimes and Crimes. There is......
Two Years Ago Mr. Justice Maugham Wrote A Little Hook
on the judicial murder, in 1702, of Jean Calas, the aged Pro- testant of Toulouse, which Voltaire denounced with such eloquence and force as to secure from the Privy Council the......
Fiction
Three Novels SOME novels show such distinguished qualities that one begins at once to scold them for not being first-class. The Island shows many distinguished qualities, but......
More Books Of The Week
(Continued from page 55.) The Blue Book, however well planned and written, is still a bogy to most of us. Therelbre, although, indeed, the Simon Report be on all the bookstalls,......
General Knowledge Questions
Om: weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss Edith S. Ball, Easthopc Rectory, Much Wenlock, for the following :—......
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