Green Lane, Or Murder At The Moat Farm. By Alec
Brown. (Cape. 7s. 6d.)—An exciting murder story, a serious psychological study, and an unusual but percep- tive picture of rural life in the south of England. A thriller of......
Blood And Celluloid. By Heinrich Eduard Jacob. (seeker....
German novel of the films, with Sardinian bandits, French diplomacy, Mussolini, and the League of Nations thrown in. Buy German, and get your money's worth !......
Malice Aforethought. By Francis Iles. (mundanus....
a commonplace crime " is a drama of character, not a detective story., There can seldom have been a criminal whose conviction was so thoroughly welcome (and poetically just) as......
The Three Brothers. By Edwin Muir. (heinemann. 7s. 6d.)—a...
competent study of a Scotch farmer's family involved in the religious animosities of Mary Stuart's time, unsatisfying because the characters do not seem to belong to their......
These Short Stories Display To Advantage The Late Donn...
brilliant gift for reporting. "Panic" and - In the Cellar " achieve something more.......
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......
New Novels
MORNING TIDE. By Neil M. Gunn. (Porpoise Press. 73. 6d.)—A straightforward tale of Scottish fisher folk. The writer knows his subject, and his work has the impressive starkness......
Shadow Show. By Beatrice Sheepshanks. (sampson Low. 7s....
misunderstood artistic tempera. ment shocked the Anglo-Dutch colony in Java. Real people in Ethel M. Dellish predicaments.......
Led By Westmacott. By W. Pett Ridge. (methuen. 7s....
Pett Ridge skittishly describing the fate which meets the traditional bachelor business man when he retires and has to contend with adopted daughter and pretty niece.......
Po' Buckra. By G. M. Shelvey And S. G. Stoney.
(Gollancz. 7s. 6d.)—Poor white (po' buckra) and a decayed great family of the Southern States, meet and go down to ruin together, surrounded by racy minor characters. The story......
Portrait Of A Paladin. By Vicente Huidobro.
• (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 7s. 6d.)—A luxurious and bombinatirig novel about the Cid, bursting with metaphor and rhetoric. A best seller in Spain that will make English readers......
The Black Box. By M. P. Shiel. (richards. 7s. 6d.)—
A far-fetched style—a blend of stage Irish and Mere- dithese—matches a far-fetched plot. Mr. Shiel's talent is not at home in detective fiction.......
Roman Holiday. By Upton Sinclair. (werner Laurie. 7s....
of modern America will not dis- place The Jungle as literature, nor Sylvia's Marriage . as propaganda ; but the hand that wrote both is evident from the first word to the last.......
Dux : A Story Of The Circus. By Hans Possendorf.
(Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d.)—The clown-hero of this artless German romance conceals under the grease-paint not only a heart of gold, but a handsome face and a doctor's degree.......
Flesh And Blood. By John Brophy. (dent. 7s. 6d.)— A
sound, careful, and conscientious story, analysing the feelings and experiences of a man accused of murder, by a promising novelist who at present takes himself a little too......
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