Born Old—died Young. By Inez Holden. (duck- Worth. 7s....
it is cynical, economical and intelligent, Miss Holden's is a smart novel ; and because her gifts are real, it is legitimately smart, not merely slick. The serious close,......
Morgan's Yard. By Richard Pryce. (collins. '75. Ad.)...
author's chief assistants are sentimentality and coincidence, his story of a mysterious woman, who brooded for years over her son's death, and of •a young playwright and an......
Tiie Great Jasper. By Fulton Ourslcr. (the Bodley Head. 7s.
6d.)—Two-listed Jasper Horn attempts to infuse red blood into his son Andrew, to counter the child's love of a Low-Chinch God. The author wastes vigour on tough and rather......
The Seven Stars. By Andre Malvil. (macmillan. 7s....
death and finally religion are in turn the preoccupations of an elderly Parisian amorist who from the wild solitude of the Aran Islands recalls his past. Clever, with dreary......
Ferney. By Donald Stewart. (desmond Harmsworth. Is....
aged thirty, has never been in love. Mark Waterlow comes into her life at the Hotel Voltaire, Ferney, Ain. They become friends, almost lovers. The story of their gradual,......
Fiction
Headlines. By Janette Cooper. (Hamish Hamilton. 7s. lid.) Ma. H. W. FREEMAN conies to the chronicling of the English countryside with many assets, one of which is a first - hand......
New Novels
. Miss Broster's collection of characters. They are all very much alive, from the French Royalists and prisoners of war to the present-day spinsters. These are delightful......
Over The Border. By Victor Keen. (elkin Mathews And Marrot.
7s. 6d.)—Presumably the author's own story told with a commendable simplicity and a touch of tenderness. It concerns his tedious journey to the Far East on a secret Soviet......
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