The Dark Duty. By Margaret Wilson. (cape. 7s. 6d.)—this Is
a propaganda novel, and a good one. Its subject is capital punishment. Wisely, Miss Wilson concen- trates not on the condemned man but on those who have to carry out the......
New Novels
CATHERINE JOINS UP. By Adrienne Thomas. (Elkin Mathews. 7s. 6d.).—The pity and terror of the War seen by a young girl of Lorraine. Catherine Lentz under- took the most......
Dark Mountain. By David Hogan. (shaylor. 5s.)— The...
waged by the Sinn Feiners against the Black-and-Tans is a romantic and sensational theme, and the author makes the most of it in this vigorous series of short stories.......
Fiction
A Diversity of Creatures Sarah Gay. By Mary Borden. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) Wanton Ways. By Norah C. James. (Duckworth. 7s. 6d.) WHEN so many excellent novels are being written, it......
The Greatest Of These (by Nikolai Gubsky : Elkin Mathews
and Marrot, 7s. 6d.) is the story of a Russian family on the eve of the War. The characters—the innocent-passionate heroine, her matter-of-fact sisters, her rake of a father,......
The Vale Of Maenalus. By Alice Buchan. (bern. 7s. 6d.)—a
sincere and careful study of three ineffectual young people making love by quotation and trying to straighten out their emotional tangles. With her last breath the heroine is......
East Wind West Wind. By Pearl S. Buck. (methuen. 7s.
6d.)—The authoress of The Good Earth gives us another intimate tale of Chinese life skilfully blended, for the taste of the Western reader, with Anglo-Saxon sentiment.......
Mad Puppetstown. By M. J. Farrell. (collins. 7s. 6d.)...
charming book about an Anglo-Irish childhood before the " troubles." More vivid in its Irish atmosphere and detail than in the English.......
David Betterton. By His Honour Judge Ruegg. (daniel. 7s....
blackmail is the mainspring of the plot ; the villains are " so-called Socialists " ; the sun is facetiously referred to as " Sol " ; and the hero dreams of Queen Mab and the......
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