Fiction.
CRABTREE HOUSE.* THOUGH Mr. Howel Evans's story opens promisingly in a Cathedral town, the migration of Amos Harbott and his household to London and the adventures of his......
Plain Impressions.*
Ix Plain Impressions Mr. A. S. G. Butler, who was during the war a subaltern in the R.F.A., has made a series of unusually successful attempts at a species of delicate and......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsea 'set rev iew.1 Drama. No. 1. Edited by G. Whitworth. (Chatto and Windus. 2s. net.)—The unofficial monthly organ of......
The Pacific : Its Past And Future. By Guy H.
Scholefield. (Murray. 15s. net.)—This well-informed history of the Pacific. islands from the eighteenth century was very much needed, and will remain a standard work of......
History Of The Portuguese In Bengal. By J. J. A.
Campos. (Calcutta and London : Butterworth. 6 rupees 8 annas net.)— Early in the sixteenth century the Portuguese, not content with Western India, Ceylon, and Malaysia, turned......
Wesley The Anglican. By The Rev. David Baines-griffiths....
6d. net.)—John Wesley was so great a man that any book about him is interesting. The special function of this little book is to emphasize Wesley's attachment to the Church in......
Readable Novel9.—the Chinese Puzzle. By Marian Bower And...
Lion. (Hutchinson. 6s. 9d. net.)—A novel on the same theme as a play always suffers from being too dramatic. There are perhaps fewer " effective curtains " than is usual in the......