Tile Deserter. By Lajos Zilahy. (ivor Nicholson And...
6d.)—The power to create character is like charity. If a novelist have it not, no other power avails hint This story abounds in vivid incidents, but they happen to an effigy.......
Tiie Ladies' Road. By Pamela Hinkson. (gollancz. 7s....
of War time and country life in Ireland comes to us sponsored by IE., Sir Philip Gibbs, and Miss Viola Meynell—a curious trio. "Miss Hinkson writes beautiful prose," says the......
Phate's Wife. By Jean Damase. (duckworth. 7s. 64, —a French
first novel which is in some ways a modern version of the story of our Lord. The fate of a prophet in a Syrian province is intermingled with Captain Godillard's intrigue with......
'the Three Gentlemen. By A. E. W. Mason. (hodder And
Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—Reincarnation is Mr. Mason', theme, and it enables him to tell three cleverly contrasted stories and to show a nice sense of period. His gentlemen live in......
Walls Whisper. By Geo. C. Foster. (chapman And Hall. 7s.
6d.)—Mr. Foster tells the story of two houses over a period of three hundred and fifty years. Michael Gulliver in the sixteenth century built better and more wisely than Horace......
Beacon Cross. By Dunn Severiek. (grayson. 7s. (id.) The...
of a Layman's Crusade for religion, and of a strategic anti-crusade which got badly entangled with Communism. Brickbats, love, speed-racing and modernity in general redeem......
The Heart Is Highland. By Flora Masson. (grant And Murray.
75. 6d.).—A pleasantly sentimental romance, readable without being cheap, about a young Englishman who falls in love with the niece of a Highland postmistress. This young......
Tile White Fakir. By George Huddleston. (ocean. 7s....
unconvincing story of a white woman who leaves her home for the Himalayas and becomes the White Fakir. The author obviously has a deal of first-hand knowledge, but has hardly......
A Dictionary Of The Older Scottish Tongue By Sir William
Craigie Two important pieces of work, which illustrate and fix the Scottish language, are at present in progress. Scots from the eighteenth century to the present day is being......
Short Fiction
MOONSIIINE. By Ray Carr. (Howe. 7s. 6d.)—A good, frank, out-and-out adventure-cum-love story, set in Burma; with no lack of exciting ingredients. Obviously the work of a man who......
Current Literature
JOVIAL KING By F. M. Kircheisen This book, Jovial King (Elkin Mathews and Marrot, 12s. 6d.) in which the sixteen photographs are not the least interesting part, deals with......
Contango. By James Hilton. (benn. 7s. Sd.) Mr. Hilton Plays
tig with a series of ideas which reach e , round the world. Each idea is connected most ingeniously, with the one before, and the story is saved from being merely episodic by a......
The Other Man. By Katharine Tynan. (ward, Lock. 7s. 6d.)—"
' The lady of the house is at home,' I said. ' Her name is Mrs. L'Estrange and Miss Patsey is at home if you'd like to see her.' He sent witherin' glares from his eyes and......
Butler's Grft. By Martin Hare. (heinemann. 7s. Gel.)...
has a very pleasant literary personality, and this tale of Ireland in troubled times reveals it to the full. A story of unusual charm and power, which can be warmly recommended.......
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