Sparks Fly Upward. By Oliver La Farge. (bodley Head. 7s.
6d.)—The clash of civilizations again—this time in Mexico. The half-caste hero loves both an • Indian woman and a Castilian, and finds he has room for both.......
Excess Baggage. By H. M. Raleigh. (methuen. 7s. 6d.) —a
high-spirited farce about a vicar who thought he had murdered his bishop, and put the body in a trunk. The bishop came to, however, and found that the trunk had put him in a......
In Future It Is Proposed To Publish In The Spectator
a corn- plete page of Fiction Reviews by Mr. L. A. G. Strong, who trill henceforward review for no other weekly paper. • •......
Lovers Are Never Losers. By Jean Giono. (jar- Rolds. 7s.
6d.)—A good dish spoiled in the cooking—or the re-cooking. There is beauty in the characters of the farm-labourer Albin and old Amedee ; there is strength . in the story of the......
Return Belphegor. By Sherard Vines. (wishart. 7s....
slump even in the nether regions, wherefore Satan sends Belphegor to Earth, in the guise of a clergyman's son, to see what can be done about it. Hard-hitting satire, and usually......
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141- .L. A G. STRONG The Saint and Mary rate. By Frank O'Connor. (Macmillan. . 7s. 6d.) Dead Water. By C. E. Lawrence. (Murray. 7s. 6d.) Sidestreets. By Madeleine H. Murat.......
Adventures Of An Obscure Victorlkn. By W. G. Riddell....
7s. 6d.)—As good a book of reminiscences as I have read for a very long time. From the day when Mr. Riddell joined the Trojan ' as third engineer, clad in a straw hat and a......
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