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The Ferry Of Fate: A Tale Of Russian Jewry. By

Samuel Gordon. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.)—Readers who are interested in the Jews in Russia should certainly read this book, although they will not find it very pleasant......

Novels.

ANTHONY BRITTEN.* THERE is a type of novel in which the reader is genuinely interested while he reads, but which he leaves with only a confused sense of what it has been all......

The Spoils Of Victory. By B. Paul Neuman. (john Murray.

6s.)—Mr. Neuman obviously intends his roman a clef to be judged as fiction pure and simple, and not as fiction founded on fact. He has transported his hero from France to......

The Bridal Of Anstace. By Elizabeth Godfrey. (john Lane....

is extremely difficult to persuade oneself to believe in the plot of The Bridal of Anstace. One can hardly conceive it possible that a bridegroom on hearing that his first wife......

King Peter. By Dion Clayton Calthrop. (duckworth And Co....

Peter gives a fanciful picture of life in that age of romance which is so delightful to read of and must have been so unpleasant to live in. The ancient map at the beginning is......