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OSCAR BROWNING. By H. C. Wortham. Illustrated. (Constable. 16s.)—Happy in the varying complexity Of his subject, which he handles with a pleasant humour, with an impartial irony......
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long and notable first novel describes the life, thoughts and emotions of Judith Earle from childhood to the end of her Cambridge days. Judith combines with common sense and......
' The Jewel Of Malabar. By Donald Sinderby. (murray. 7s.
6d.)—The heroine of this story is Kamayla, a beautiful Hindu girl with whom Sir John Bennville, a young English officer, involved in fighting in South-West i India, falls......
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SIR RICHARD MUIR : A MEMOIR OF A PUBLIC PROSECUTOR: Written by Sidney Theodore Felstead and edited by Lady Muir. (Bodley Head. 18s.)—Since nothing, not even a Test Match, is of......
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purports to be the autobiography of a youth of sixteen, recalling his nursery, dame school, and =youth " days. The period is some forty years ago. The boy's adventures and......
The Feathered Serpent. By Edgar Wallace. (hodder And...
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The Original Jerusalem Gospel. Essays On The Document " Q."
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Pearl And Plain. By E. A. Griffin. (longmans. 7s. 6d.)—lady
Morland is the mother of four daughters. Having successfully married three of them, she is determined' to make a specially good " catch " for Pearl. the youngest and most......
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