Fiction
GALAHAD. By John Erskine. (Nash and Grayson. 7s. 6d. net.)—By irresistibly convincing revelations , of the imagin- ary " real facts " about King Arthur, Guinivere and Lancelot......
Spanish .bayonet. By Stephen . Vincent Benet. (heinemann....
net.)—Mr. Stephen Vincent Benet is one of the most promising novelists of the younger American school. His new story gives an interesting account of the early foundations of......
The Romany Stain. By Christopher Morley. (heine- Mann....
net.)—Mr. Morley's novel, Thunder on the Left,- was so brilliant that his essays seem in comparison unsub- stantial, however delicate and sensitive. This author has a most......
Architecture And The Allied Arts. By Alfred Mansfield...
Allen and Unwin, Ltd. las. 6d.)—This book is written as a simple guide for the laYman who wishes to be initiated into the principles of architecture through the medium of past......
Ovid And His Influence. By Edward Kinnaird Rand. (harrap....
net.)—The well-known Professor of Latin at Harvard, who has lately received an honorary degree at Oxford, gives a taste of his quality in this charming little book on Ovid. It......
British Birds. Vol. Iv. By A. Thorburn. (long- Mans....
completion of Mr. Thorburn's British Birds is something of an event, for he is almost supreme as a portrait-painter of birds in his combination of fidelity and suggestion. He......
Summer Storm. By Frank Swinnerton. (hutchinson. 7s. 6d....
Swinnerton has moved a long way from Nocturne in his new novel, Summer Storm. But, although he now gives a certain framework of plot, the interest of his book is still in the......
The Smugglers' Cave. By George A. Birmingham. (hodder And...
7s. 6d. net.)—The ever-amusing Mr. Birmingham has never written a. more engaging or laugh- able extravaganza than this one. It deals with the inception of a local pageant in a......
Untknown Suffolk. By Donald Maxwell. (the Godley Head....
sketches of Suffolk,,' both in line and colour, are wonderfully delicate and charming. The letterpress is less attractive. It should not, however, be regarded as an illustrated......
Cobblesett. By Florence Bone. (john Murray. 78. 6d....
Watt, the old Yorkshire woman, tells these stories to a convalescent London girl in search of health in the dales. Whether she talks about " The Sail of a Sponge Cake," " The......
Young Malcolm. By G. Blake, (constable.. 7s. 6d....
gives a very able account of the struggle which is gone through by Malcolm Tweedie between his love of science and his love of his wife and child. Research work does not enable......
L'edro De Valdivia. By R. B. Cunninghame Graham.'...
net:)—After dashing home to Scotland in his last book, Mr. Cunninghame Graham here returns to South America, the history of which he has already illuminated for many readers.......
In Days That Are Dead. By Sir Hugh Clifford. (john
Murray. 7s. 6d.)—The author is distinguished in another field than that of fiction and those studies which are incidents of Sir Hugh's early career, such as " In the Rushing of......
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