The Last Spring. By Beatrice Nairn. (faber And Faber. 7s.
6d.)—A sensitive and unusual love story, set in Switzerland, between an innkeeper's son and the daughter of an English novelist. The book has charm and depth of feeling, but......
The Man In No. 3. By J. S. Fletcher. (collins.
7s. 6d.)— In most of these stories the author allows us to fo low our own false trails and then, in the last paragr ph, switches us back to the right one. He has 0. Henry's......
New Novels
A BOOK WITH SEVEN SEALS. With a preface by . Hugh Walpole. (Seeker. 8s. 6d.)—Here we have a book that will enchant readers who like to glance back down the long lane of years......
If I Were You. By P. G. Wodehouse. (herbert Jenkins.
3s. 6d.)—Tells how the Earl of Droitwich is betrothed to Violet, daughter of Waddington of Waddington's Ninety-Seven Soups, and how a photographer and family nurse impede the......
Fiction
Nations and Novels Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) IT is a perpetual problem to know how much the novel can contain. In England the tendency is to cram as much as possible into it, and to......
The Eye Of Nemesis. By Mrs. Philip Champion De Crespigny.
(Cassell. 7s. 6d.). Although one obvious bit of evidence connected with the murder of a publisher in this detective story is never considered and the plot is poor, one's......
Hue And Cry. By Bruce Hamilton. (the Crime Club. 7s.
6d.)—It is the story of a murderer's flight and escape from punishment, told from his point of view, just well enough to escape dismissal as a mere thriller.......
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