Fiction
EARTHQUAKE. By Henry Walsworth Kinney. (Nash and Grayson. 7s. 6d.)—An ironic situation is well handled in his carefully written and somewhat unusual novel. Sage Smith is an......
Get Along Alone. By L. W. Vedrenne. (allen And Unwin.
7s. Od.)—" The over-production of potential wives " is Mr. Vedrenne's theme. He introduces us to Jane Lade, who, despite - beauty; wealth, and every other apparent advantage, is......
The Lay Confessor. By Stephen Graham. (bern. 7s. 6d.)—the...
part of Mr. Graham's novel almost reads like a translation, not because of deficiency in English style, but because the naïve, dreamy, all-accepting narrative, with its sudden......
A Scientist At Eton
Eton and Elsewhere. By M. D. Hill. (Murray. 125.) THERE must be thousands of Old Etonians who carry with them vivid and pleasant memories of science " divisions " under Mr. M.......
Inspector Wilson's Holiday. By G. D. H. And M. Cole.
(Collins. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. and Mrs. Cole have given us another excellent volume of detective stories. The adventures of the leading private detective of England while on his......
The Bishop's Wife. By Robertnathan. (gollancz. 6s.)...
tender little fantasy, perhaps slightly lacking in :definition. The harasserIbishOp says _ that only an abgel could ;serve him as his archdeacon ; and a passing seraph takes him......
The Hinge Of Heaven. By Stephena Cockrell. (chatto And...
7s. 6d.)—The tasteful binding and decoratiOn-rd !ilia novel iggelit that it. possesses the Cranford type, f charm and though the Seale is far away Virginia, expectations are not......
:display Genuine Powers Of Description And . But The...
is unpleasantly _warped. I is one thing to reveal the hidden splendour in squalor ; but Miss Salt, in these little studies of a neurotic woman or a young actress eager for......
Humdrum. By Harold Acton. (chatto And Windug. 7s....
a modern smartness, sometimes degenerating into vulgarity, are the distinguishing qualities of this study of two sisters. Brought up in a provincial, puritanical home, Linda......
Unmarried Life. By John North. (jarrolds. 7s. 6d.)—this Is A
comedy of cross purposes, in which the chief characters are a widow, anxious to marry her daughter to a supposedly rising financier, and a group of young people whose......
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