Fiction
BELLARION. By Rafael Sabatini. (Hutchinson. 7s, Ocl: net.)--An adventurer of the early years of the fifteenth cen- tury, Bellarion is revealed as scholar, politician, military......
Gardens Fortown And Suburb. By V. N. Sully. (henn....
tells us in his preface, Gardens for Town and Suburb is not a " handyguide to horticulture," but a book of sympathetic advice, based on knowledge gleaned from practical......
Half A Sovereign. By Ian Hay. (hodder And Stoughton. 7s.
6d.)—A light-hearted account, not quite u p to Mr. Hay's best, of a love story, a yachting trip in the Mediterranean, and a ghostly adventure obviously intended to be farcical.......
Arabian 'medicine And Its Influence On The Middle Ages. _
By Dr. Donald Campbell. (Kegan Paul. vols. 21s.)Students. of mediaeval thought and literature will welcome these two volumes. Vast in extent and but little explored, the Arabian......
Ways - Of Escape. By Noel -forrest. (constable. 7s. 6d.
net.)—A most able and intelligent fictitious biogiaphy this, of Stephen Heath, who believed as a boy that whoever wants his ends wholly must secure them. He grew up aloof and......
Billy Padley's Wife. By Norman Venner. (heine- Mann. 7s....
are grateful to Mr. Norman Vernier for this sparkling comedy of manners. The conventional roles of hero and heroine are reversed, and it is Billy Padley who is possessed of the......
Sheaves From ,the Cornhill. By Various Authors, (murray....
editor of the Cornhill is to be congratulated on this collection of reprinted stories : they are the finished products of craftsmen who are sure of their technique, and who have......
Holiday Novels
It will take even the practised reader some time to find out who was the "Head Hunter" in Mr. Edgar Wallace's new story, The Avenger (John Long. 7s. 6d. net). The book has less......
, The Abbey Of St. Gall. By J. M. Clark.
(Cam- bridge University Press. 18s. net.)—Most people who read German know Scheffel's Eklcehard, that well-written historical romance which describes St. Gall in the tenth......
Islam And The Divine Comedy. By Miguel Asin. (john Murray.
12s.)—Unusual interest attaches to this work, offspring of the union of Arabic and Romance scholarship. Persuasive and delightful in translation, the chapters proceed from......
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