The Passionate Tree. By Beatrice Sheepshanks. Einernann....
is a moving study of a who, having been repressed throughout childhood and n th, is suddenly faced with •affluence and independence. en Mary Dale is nine, her mother runs away,......
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Sun in Splendour is the name of an ngton public-house. Its owner, David Scollard, is at heart dreamer and a musician, and Beethoven and Mozart are yed by a small orchestra in......
The Story Of The World At War. By M. 13.
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Splendid History Of Post-restoration Drama, Yields...
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P«pitee (Faber and Gwyer, 5s.) Mr. Marcus Cheke gives a remarkably fresh, picturesque; and piquant account of in Paris in the fourth year of the Republic. The main Meters are......
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The Blatant Beast in America Elmer Gantry. By Sinclair Lewis. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. " ELMER GANTRY was drunk." With this statement record of the varieties of his religious......
The Autobiography Of A Chinese Dog. By Florence Ayscough....
(Cape. 6s.)—It's a flr cry from Wei-hai-Wei to the Bay of Fundy, and therefore it is that Yo Fei, a dog of the famous Lo-sze breed, has like Odysseus a tale to tell of many men......
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