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Just Impediment. By Constance I. Smith. (melrose. 7s. 6d....

of the principal characters of this story are old enough for their sentimental adventures not to be very attractive. The book is much concerned with the rest- lessness of a......

Madonna And The Student. By Isabel Neilson. (jonathan...

6d. net.)—Music, winter sports, and the Munich University are the theme of this novel. It is chiefly inter- esting for its picture of post-War Germany. The excitement and misery......

Other Novels

The Red Mass. By Valentine Williams. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—A thriller placed on the very appro- priate stage of Paris in the days of the French Revolution. The......

Fiction

STREAMERS WAVING wears her great erudition lightly, she is prone to self-analysis, and she has fallen in love with an amiable young athlete whom circumstances allow her to' see......

Ashmorlands. By Winifred Boggs. (herbert Jenkins. 7s. 6d....

of a family founded by an Admiral who in the eighteenth century built a house to his fancy which resembled a ship low down in the water. The Ashmorlands, both family and house,......

Utter Happiness. By Frank Savile. (arnold. '7s. 6d....

" featuring," as would be said in the film world, the strong silent man in iferhaps his happiest development as the upright British administrator of a native province in Africa.......

The Ship Beautiful. By Charles Allen. (warne. 7s. 6d....

is inevitable that the psychology of a blind man should be the principal interest in Mr. Charles Allen's story, The Ship Beautiful, for we understand that the author himself has......

Finance-public And Private

EMPIRE BORROWING By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. IN a very able article which appeared recently in the Observer, Sir Josiah Stamp dealt with the general question of our foreign loan policy,......

Tales Of The Troubles. By Lord Ernest Hamilton. (t. Fisher

Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.)—Irish rebellions in the seventeenth century form the theme of Lord Ernest Hamilton's seven studies. In each story the cruelty of the native Irish insurgents......

Watling's For Worth. By Horace Annesley Vachell. (hodder...

7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Vachell succeeds in interesting the reader in his book whenever he deals with the commercial methods of Watling's, an enormous modern store, instead of with......