18 JANUARY 1919, page 20

Fiction.

THE SPINNERS.• MR. E rum Parrcrorrs's now novel, the scene of which is laid in Dorset, differs in two respects from his Dartmoor stories. There is less elaborate description of......

From The Home Front.*

The public stock of harmless pleasures has been so often enriched by Sir Owen Seaman that it is almost superfluous now to say anything further in his praise. The present......

The Women Novelists.• Mn. Amble? Johnson's Book Has...

do with the moderns. It is a detailed and conscientious study of the develop- ment of women novelists during the period from the publication of Eisfina to that of Daniel......

Lillie England. By Sheila Kaye-smith. (nisbet And Co....

is more than a touch of poetry in Miss Kaye-Smith's story of the war seen through the eyes of a farmer's family in Sussex. The book is divided into seven parts, each part......

Readable Notels. —the Grim Thirteen. Stories By Thirteen...

Stacy Aumonier and Mrs. Moe Lowndes . (Hurst and Blackett. ea ed.)—A collection of thirteen gloomy little stories, the editor of the volume pluming himself on the fact that they......