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Fiction

THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND The Penultimate Adventure, By Norman Davey. (Elkin Matthews. 6s. net.) Ghosts and Marvels. Tales selected by V. H. Collins. Brazilian Tales.......

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SHOALWATER AND FAIRWAY. By H. Alker Tripp ("Leigh Hoe"). (The Bodley Head. 8s. 6d. net.) MR: TRIPP has chosen with some ingenuity the pseudonym, —" Leigh Hoe "—under which he is......

A Handbook Of Housing. By B. S. Townroe. (methuen

and Co. (i8. net.) . . LET us hope that when Mr. Neville Chamberlain lays down his task at the Ministry of Health it may be possible for a book to be written half as......

Tidemarks. By H. M. Tomlinson. '(cassail. 12s. 6d.) There Is

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The Folklore Of Bombay. By R. E. Enthaven, (clarendon Press,

14s.)' THE FOLKLORE OF BOMBAY. By R. E. Enthaven, (Clarendon Press, 14s.)' MR. Erman - EN modestly describes this work as an attempt to carry out the design laid down by a......