Encounters.*
ITS alluring title sufficiently advertises the character of this, Miss Bowen's first volume of short stories. One hopes that it will be followed by many more, equally mature in......
Those Who Sympathize With The Boy Scout Movement And Are
gratified to see the Church of Rome very militant and triumphant here on earth will enjoy Beardless Counsellors. It could not safely be put into the hands of an impressionable......
The Silken Scarf. By L. C. Hobart. (edward Arnold. 7s.
6d.) A first novel about two men and one woman. The hero, like all good heroes of romance, renounces the woman he loves. The story itself is feeble, but the descriptive......
Without Conditions.*
This is a novel which has the admirable peculiarity of being written with a sense of style. It is placed in the 'forties of last century, in Aberdeenshire, but it does not seem......
Box O' Lights. By Henry Baerlein. (leonard Parsons. '7s....
Reading Mr. Baerlein's stories is like dreaming. One is very much at home in a strange place ; whether we consort with the saints and sinners of the Middle Ages or meet......
Miss Johnston Can Always Be Trusted To Produce A "
sound" novel even if it be sometimes a little dull. Her present subject, the journeys of Columbus, is a romantic one, and she does full justice to a theme in itself so......
Mr. Seligman Has Written A Painful Book. It Is Unfortunate
that so many undergraduates should be ridding themselves of their impressions ' - but few have received so little from their residence or have perverted so astoundingly what......
Here Is One Of Those Absorbing " Mystery Shockers "
which, until finished ; render the reader entirely unfit for everyday life. When we have put them down we wonder at our absorption. The episodes in this example are too pre-......
The Quarterlies.
The Edinburgh. Professor A. B. Keith's searching article on " The Imperial Constitution and the Imperial Conference " deserves careful study. He notes how opinion has changed......
Alcatraz. By Max Brand. (putnam. 7s. 6d.)
Alcatraz is the story of a horse. Not a gentle, trustworthy horse like Black Beauty, but a ferocious, man-killing creature of the prairie. His reluctance to be tamed is more......
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