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Fiction

The Function of a Novel Back Street. By Fannie Hurst. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) IT will probably be granted that the realistic novel is dead. Why ? The truth is that the pedestrian......

Boys In Trouble

Boys In Trouble : a Study of Adolescent Crime and its Treatment. By Mrs. L. le Mesurier. (John Murray. 6s.) WE hope this book will find its way to a large public. Few people......

How The War Came

The Coming of the War, 1914. By Bernadotte E. Schmitt. (Scribners. 2 vols. 30s.) MOST of us were convinced in August, 1914, that Austria- Hungary had thrown a lighted match into......