21 MAY 1927, page 27

Fiction

The Second Napoleon of Notting Hill The Return of Don Quixote. By ti. K. Chesterton. (Chatto and Windus. 7s. (3d.) ir is so many years since we read Mr. Chesterton's first......

Mr. Priestley's Problem. By A. B. Cox (collins. 7s....

is an excellent mystery story, centring around a staged, and not a real, murder. Two young amateur criminologists are anxious to see with their own eyes how a murderer would act......

David Armyr. By Michael Barrington. (crosby Loek- Wood....

Michael Barrington has .allowed his imagination to play round a case discovered in the notebook of a Scottish lawyer of the sixteenth century, and has re- invested with life the......

The Best Stories Of Mary E. Wilkins. (harper. 7s. 6d.)—to

the younger generation of readers the name of Miss Wilkins may be unfamiliar. She is an American writer, whose stories in Harper's were, we are told, part of the natural order......

From Bismarck To The World War

From Bismarck to the World War. By Erich Brandenburg. (Oxford University Press. 21s.) HERR BRANDENBURG has written a valuable book. It is always interesting to see German policy......

The Inn In The Valley. By Katherine Pleydell- Bouverie....

6s.)—The Ilurons—two .brothers and two sisters—are the fourth generation of their family to carry on the fluctuating fortunes of The House of Joys' at Sabrats, a tourist village......