A Hank Of Hair. By Temple Thurston. (cassell. 7s. 6d.)
—A young man commits embezzlement and robbery with violence in order to give a handsome pendant to his mannequin fiancee. The girl receives the pendant from the . Other Man, who......
The Lost Caravan. By H. De Vere Stacpoole. (collins. 7s.
6d.)—Whether one's taste be highbrow or lowbrow, acid or saccharine, good craftsmanship is always a joy. Mr. Stacpoole brings to this tale of the fatal love of a French painter......
The Pavilion Of Honour. By George Preedy. (bodley Head. 7s.
6d.)—Mr. Preedy adorns Monseigneur le Comte de Bonneval with all the-physical and mental colours.of the dge dare of Louis XIV—XV. Bonneval's honour is . extremely sensitive and......
Westward Passage. By Margaret Ayer Barnes. (jonathan...
the fffitterings of an American woman of forty who meets her divorced husband on an Atlantic liner. Magazine stuff for the very tired housewife.......
A Winter's Passion. By Doris Langley Moore. (heine- Mann....
6d.)—Though mannered in style this four- sided psychological drama has some ingenious feminine characterization to recommend it. The story is cleverly worked up to a convincing......
Current Literature
ELECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS By Sir Alfred E. Pease THE title, if no more, of Burke's " Appeal from the New Whigs to the Old Whigs " is recalled by Sir Alfred Pease's volume of......
Captain Culverin. By Maurice Petherick. (bean. 7s. 6d.)—a...
of Cornwall round about 1715, written simply, vividly, and without recourse to the vocabulary of the stop my vitals " school.......
Alfred Belt By Seymour Fort
Rhodes's friend and collaborator not only in building up the diamond and gold industries of South Africa, but also in founding Rhodesia, has had to wait long for a literary......
The Hound Of Florence. By Felix Salten. (heine- Mann. 78.
6d.)—Modern fairy tales are more sophisti- cated, but they employ the same gods from the machine. Mr. Salten's hero, a or Viennese art student, would be content to be the......
New Novels
CHADWICK ROUNDABOUTS. By Alec Brown. (Cape. 7s. 6d.)—A murder, a stolen deedbox, and the man who benefited by the earlier will changing ten pound notes in the village pub. Mr.......
Fiction
7s. 8d.) Ducks on a Pond. By Marigold Wainey. (Philip Allan. 7s. 6d1 MR. HUXLEY has been born too late. Seventy years ago, the great powers of his mind would have been anchored......
The Labyrinth. By Ina Seidel. (the Bodley Head. 7s....
Forster's father made him into a prig and a pedant. Not even a voyage round the world with Cook could knock the sense out of him : this perhaps is why Frau Seidel's sympathetic......
North Wind. By James Lansdale Hodson. (faber And Faber. 7s.
6d.)—Mr. Hodson's earlier novel, Grey Dawn, Red Night, was an impressive piece of work. North Wind is less remarkable. Martin Frobisher's career during and after the War has a......
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