Chpri. By Gabrielle Colette. (gollancz. 7s. 6d.)— This...
a well-known French author has already received extravagant praise. Mr. Arnold Bennett declares that Colette "has more finesse and more genius than any other woman-novelist I......
In The Romance Of The Planets (harpers, 76. (id.) Miss
Mary Proctor • adds a delightful volume to her series by which the odyssey of the astronomer is charted for the stay-on-earth reader. Here we have the story of that handful of......
The Story Of A Simple Life Has Been Told Often
enough, and it is retold for America in Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years 1827-1927 (Allen, 12s. (h.), as delivered largely from Grand- mother Brown's own lips, and recorded by......
Captain Everard Wyrall Is An Indefatigable Military Hi,...
now appears with the second volume of the history of The Kings Regiment (Arnold, 7s. Od.—an astonishingly low price), which carries the regimental story through the years 1916......
Both In His Verse And In His Critical Studies, - Mr.
Sherard Vines (The Course of English Classicism, Hogarth Lectures, Hogarth Press, 8s. (Id.) has the qualities and defects of a pronounced -temperament, which exists in a state......
Genesta. By Accituna Griffin. (john Murray. 7s. Lid.)...
help wondering, sometimes, how it is that books like this ever come to be written. Not that this particular story is really any worse, or even perhaps as bad, as many which......
Doctor Fogg. = By -norman Matson: (bean. 6s.):--;' Doctor...
has the supreme merit of being•very'entertaining, The author has discovered that it is not necessary to take serious people seriously, and the discovery of means of com-......
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• * * • One cannot say that Adam and Evelyn, at Kew (Elkin Mathews and Marrot, 21s.) is made of the stuff of dreams, of history, of the movies, of erudite and unusual knowledge,......
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