Tenement. By John Cockburn. (blackwood. 7s. 6d. Net.)...
do not know the housing conditions of Glasgow will be surprised by Mr. Cockbum's book. " Tenement ' to the English mind means something rather different from the apartment-house......
Fiction
ONLY a year ago the present reviewer was startled into enthusiasm by a book of short stories from a young Irish writer ; and now here is a collection, a first book by an elderly......
The Isle Of Ghosts. By Shaw Desmond. (duckworth. '7s. 6d.
net.)—The tragic irony of Irish patriotism has never been more discerningly expressed than in Mr. Shaw Desmond's new volume. The book ends—except for the cynical epilogue with......
Finance-public And Private
ALTHOUGH the Great War is now a good many years behind us, its after effects, politically, financially and socially, are proving to be more enduring and far-reaching than could......
Married Alive. By Ralph Strauss. (chapman And Hall. Is. 6d.
net.)—In his new book Mr. Ralph Strauss gives a most entertaining account of the bewilderment and revulsion felt by a man of science when his abstract theories are carried into......
The Alarm. By John Rhode. (geoffrey Bles. 7s. 6d. Net.)—all
the adventurous chapters m this novel, the storm at sea, the gun-running, &c., are delightful reading. Those that are concerned with semi-Bohemian journalistic society in London......
Other Novels
The World We Live In. By Algernon Cecil. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d. net.)—This comedy of modern manners is written to demonstrate the irrevocability from the Roman Catholic point of......
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