Fiction
BEFORE THE BOMBARDMENT. By Osbert Sitwell. (Duckworth. 7s. 6d. net.)—Some thousands of people— perhaps more—are bound to dislike this clever novel. Mr. Sitwell did not, in any......
Young Anarchy. By Sir Philip Gibbs. (hutchinson. 7s. 6d....
Philip Gibbs's novels have more than a superficial resemblance to those cinema ffims which display current events. The fact that his technique includes a plot may be eliminated,......
New Histories
AN episode in the history of London is admirably h a by Mr. J. Paul de Castro in The Gordon Riots (Oxf University Press, 18s. net), a piece of sound re which deserves to be......
English Life In The Middle Ages. By L. F. Salzman.
(Oxford University Press. 7s. 6d. net.)—This delightful picture-book, full of well-chosen reproductions from mediaeval manuscripts, may be cordially recommended both to children......
Introduction To Sally. By The Author Of Eliza- Beth And
her German Garden. (Macmillan. 7s. 6d. net.)— Beauty such as the Greeks would have held could only be obtained by a touch from Aphrodite's girdle is the foundation of "......
Land Of Day-dreams. By Gerald Villiers-stuart. (holden....
Villiers-Stuart calls his volume of Irish stories Land of Day-Dreams, and he contrives to convey across St. George's Channel the authentic vaguely poetic feeling of that country......
A Wanderer In Rome. By E. V. Lucas. (methuen Los.
6d. net.)—Mr. Lucas Specializes in gossipy guide-books. and fills this book with local or historical information given with the informality of talk. But his talent in supplying......
Six Christian Education Manuals. (kingsgate Press. 1s....
issues six Christian Education Manuals," which furnish clear and freshly-written analyses of the subjects with which they deal. These are Baptist Principles, by Mr. H. Wheeler......
Current Literature
THE AMATEUR SETTLERS. By Lord and Lady Apsley. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d.)—The European War has a deal to answer for, and before 1914 the eldest son of a peer who happened......
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