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The Garden Of Contentment. By Elinor Mordaunt. (heine-...

net.)—Yet another edition of these charming letters. Through their quiet preoccupation with the little matters - of a seellMed life and of a garden, they reveal the character of......

Tif.f.se Might Have Been Called " Three Plays For A

Grand Guignol." They include two horror plays and a character sketch. The Death-Day Party, by far the best of the three, was accepted for performance but was refused licence by......

Storks Of Deep Sea Fish. Stories Of W Hales And

Other Sea Creatures. By Frank T. Bullen. (R.T.S. 3s. net each.)— The stories in these two volumes. are taken from Bullen's larger work, entitled Creatures of the Sea. Nowadays......

Reprints.

Nash's " Famous Fiction Library." (Nash and Grayson. 2s. 6d. net.)—Some of the novels included in. this series have already conquered their tens of thousands and, presumably,......

The Wandering Years.t It Is Not Easy To Describe This

pleasant, entertaining book After the War the author, for a time homeless, wanders about with her daughter in England and Scotland and Italy. She meets with many agreeable and......

Plato. Bya. E. 'saylor. Philosophies Ancient And Modern....

net.)—It is pleasant to see Mr. Taylor's fresh and clear study of Plato reprinted: He writes in a style that may be called either deplorably undignified or beautifully......

Baconian Essays

" I asi a sort of ' haunted with the conviction that the divine William is the biggest and most successful fraud ever prac- tised on a patient world." This quotation from the......