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Geoffrey Sanclair. By Horace Caradoc. (constable And Co....

not remember Mr. Caradoc's name as a writer of fiction, but if Geoffrey Sanclair is a first book it is certainly a very promising achievement. It deals with modern life, chiefly......

Crooked Answers. By Phyllis Bottome And H. De Lisle Brock.

(John Murray. 6s.)—This is a most amusing little book, told in a form which is generally anything but amusing, that is, by means of letters exchanged between the characters.......

Three Recently Published Books On Westminster Abbey Are...

be read with interest at the present time. The Founders of Westminster Abbey, by Henry Troutbeck (Mowbray and Co. 2s. net.), gives a series of short sketches of the various......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this headins les notice such Books of the week as hays not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Report of the Conference on Nationalities and Subject Races, held......

Eight Centuries Of Portuguese Monarchy, By V. De Braganca...

(Stephen Swift. 15s. net), since it covers the whole history og Portugal from the earliest times to last October, is necessarily more in the nature of a sketch than of an......

Novels.

SIR EDWARD.* TES anonymous author of Sir Edward has either studied Swift to good purpose, or his been instinctively led to adopt what was a characteristic feature of Swift's......

Readable Novzlei.—inhaling. By Georgina Lee. (chatto And...

story of a marriage in which ship- wreck is threatened, but is averted by the genuine love which, in spite of disagreements, the husband and wife feel for each other. —Some......

A Short History Of English Versification. By Max Kaluza...

by A. C. Dunstan. (George Allen and Co. 5s. net.)— This volume is a good example of what is generally understood by German scholarship. It presents an elaborate historical......