A Life Of The Saint Told In " Plain, Straightforward
language, free from the elements of legend and superstition." The two illustrations, however, are in the worst tradition of religious art.......
The Outline Of Literature And Art. Edited By John Drinkwater
and Sir William Orpen. To be completed in 24 fortnightly parts. (George Newnes, Ltd. 1s. 2d. per part.) The names of the editors and publishers of this popular work will......
The Toaibs Of The Kings : A Handbook To The
Objects Directly Relating to Akhenaten and Tutankhamen in the British Museum. (Rickinson and Son. is. net ; post free is. Ad.) This handbook to the objects relating to Akhenaten......
Brothers In Love. By Joan A. Cowdroy. (sampson Low, Marston
and Co. Os. net.)—The dust cover of this book illustrates a gentleman apparently feeling a lady's pulse. Another narrow picture on the back shows an invalid propped up on a......
The Black Shadow. By F. A. N. Webster. (nisbet. 7s.
6d. net.)—A badly written and impossible tale of a universal negro revolt. With all his faults, however, Mr. Webster contrives to be sufficiently exciting.......
Bokhara, Turkoman And Afghan Rugs. By Hartley Clark....
31s. 6d.) A specialist is very rarely interesting to anybody but a specialist, and therefore " collectors' books " can usually only appeal to the average cultured man through......
Dawn At Sundays River. By F. E: Mills Young. (hodder
and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—A novel about South Africa, where the heroine and her husband after the War buy an orange farm in order to make a livelihood. The physical......
Fragments Of Life. By Margaret Wynne Nevinson. (allen And...
5s. net.)—Mrs. Nevinson tells her stories with a peculiar aimlessness which makes them seem records of life. She has little else of the art of the short story writer, but she......
The Arts.
We cannot too enthusiastically welcome the announcement of the Philips Publications, two series of illustrated mono- graphs, the first on the great artists of the past, American......
Fiction:
A LARGE NOVEL.} MOST novels can be classified, and of some it is enough to say that they are modem. In " serious " modern fiction one expects to find a theme rather than a plot,......
The Gay Triangle. By William Le Queux. (jarrolds. Os....
of adventure in a marvellous machine which is half an aeroplane and half a motor-car. Readers who can accept the conditions of this vehicle will find the various episodes......
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