Readable Novels.—simon Heriot. By Patricia Wentworth....
careful novel, with a par- ticularly clever study of a frivolous woman. The "case " of faith-healing at the end is a little forced and out of keeping with the simplicity of the......
Napoleon And The Campaign Of 1814. By Henry Houssaye. (hugh
Rees. 8s. 6d. net.)—When Major R. S. McClintock was preparing this excellent translation of M. Houssaye's picturesque narrative of the campaign of 1814, he could hardly guess......
Shop Girls. By Arthur Applin. (mills And Boon. 6s.)—...
Mr. Arthur Applin's new book is interesting, he does not manage to achieve a complete result. His figure of " Lobb," the man who controls the great destinies of Lobb's Stores,......
Fiction.
DR. ASHFORD AND HIS NEIGHBOURS.• THERE must be many sedulous novel-readers who find it a little difficult in these agitated days to distract their attentions from the real to an......
The Toll. By William Westrup. (hurst And Blackett. 6s.)—a...
deal of light is thrown by Mr. Westrup on the problem of life in modern Johannesburg. The hero of the book is a "shift boss" in a mine, and the heroine, Molly Rayde, goes out to......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Under this heading •Les notice such nooks of the week as haws 114$ his reserved for review tin other forms.] We have received a timely reprint of Commerce in War, by L. A.......
Tactics And The Landscape. By Captain T. Bedford...
and Polden. 3a net.)—Most military students, like the majority of other people, find it difficult to visualize the land- scape represented by a map. Much nonsense is written in......
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