Sunset Pass. 'bst Lane Grey. (hodder And Stoughton. 78....
Reckon the old burg's not changed any,' soliloquised - Rock." And it • hasn't The hombres and the icanlawcd.he-men have-seen to that. Excellent of ifs kibt • •_......
Miss Higgs And Her Silver Flamingo. By Richard Blake Brown.
(Duckworth. 7s. 6d.)—With studied naiveté describes how a handful of eccentrics are swiftly and frequently involved in a series of ridiculous, inconsequent, and improper......
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action Conquerors and Dreamers The Farm on the River Po. By Mario Boma. (Berm. 78. ed,) THOUGH three of them deal with strong and dominating personalities, none of these five......
Francis. By Daphne Lambart. (blackwood. 5s.)—a Study Of...
of frustrated people linked together by an elusive character. A remarkable novel written with great delicacy and perception, handled with freshness and skill and without......
Cat's Meat And Kings. By George Baker. (eric Part- Ridge.
8s. 6d.)—These slender and promising studies of poor people halt too frequently before moral, social and symbolical perplexities, and the author's attempts to escape by violence......
Rock And Sand. By John Oliver. (allen And Unwin. 7s.
6d.)--LA would-be epic of life in a small village on the St. Lawrence into which comes a disturbing American family. Diligent but unimaginative.......
The Man From Limbo. By Guy Endore. (gollancz. 75. Ad.)—an
imaginary narrator's life-story and the account of -a Search for treasure in the novel he is writing are adroitly woven together. A successful and absorbing experiment.......
Prairie Women. By Ivan Beede. (harper's. 6s.)— Deals...
the life story of a woman, her family and their circle in the Middle West since the World Fair. Disappointingly slight and too scattered to be really interesting.......
Mr. Percy A. Harris, M.p., Who Has Been Re-elected Once
again to the London County Council, is one of the oldest and most popular members of that wonderful body, and no one is better qualified than he to write on London and its......
Some Books Of The Week
ADMIRALS in the seventeenth century had a much more varied and strenuous experience than their modern successors. The shrewd seaman whom Miss Florence E. Dyer com- memorates in......
Mr. W. H. Boulton's The Romance Of The British Museum
(Sampson Low, 12s. 6d.) ought to send some of its readers to Bloomsbury to see for themselves some of the many things that the author describes. He gives an outline of the main......
Seed On The Wind. By Rex Stout. (morley And Mitchell
Kennerley, Jun. 7s. 6d.)—Lora, a product of the American boom years, had an astonishing capacity for acquiring lovers, jobs, babies and money, all treated with slick and......
New Novels
SOLDIERS AND WOMEN. By Otto Wendler. (Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.)—Another War book of the florid Teutonic type. The amours of soldiers separated from their wives and vice versa......
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