Humbug. By E. M. Delafield. (hutchinson. 8s. 6d. Net.)— The
lady who writes under the name of " E. M. Delafield " has given us in her new novel a treatise on the avoidance of the noun which she uses as her title. It may be doubted......
Poem Worthy Of Consideration.—orchard And Vineyard. By...
(Lane. 6s. net.)—Miss Sackville- West has interesting thoughts, but she does not make very good poems out of them. Though obviously the work of a person of brains, there is......
Other. Novels.—christabel. By Edith Henrietta Fowler....
story of an unequal marriage between a girl hardly out of the schoolroom and a middle- aged man who had already been married twice. Christabel's friend, the Dean, who on more......
The Quarterlies.
Dm Edinburgh Review for January contains a lucid article by Mr. Arthur W. Kiddy on " Foreign Exchanges and Human Effort," enforcing the truth that the collapse of the exchanges......
Fiction.
SWEET WATERS.* MR. HAROLD NICOLSON has written a novel which falls into a quite recognizable if not very common category. Perhaps one could define the type shortly by calling it......
Poets And Poetry.
TENDENCIES IN MODERN AMERICAN POETRY.* I HOPE that everyone who reads the book will notice what is not very clearly stated in the present edition of Miss Amy Lowell's Tendencies......