Faculty Of Gloom ; But When He Was Younger He
could be as gruesOine as Bluebeard. He tried his hand at a novel. The hero, Zinov'ev, is a handsome, strong, open-faced man, popular with' men and Mired by women: His very......
Lud In The Mist. By Hope Mirrlees. (collins. 7s. 6d.)
—Miss Mirrlees, who is an author of distinction, has attempted a difficult task here and meets with success. The story she relates, fantastic and dreamlike, takes place in a......
William . Blake. By Osbert. Burdett. (macmillan....
written 'of Blake in the' past year or two. His very instability and his lack of system have been exalted into virtues. But Mr. Burdett is temperate ; his criticism is unusually......
The English Poor In The Eighteenth .cen- Tury. By Dorothy
Maishalf, Ph.D. (Rotitledge. ' 12s. 6d. net.)—As our Poor Law administration is to be remodelled in the near future, it is well - to take into account all our past experience in......
Blinded Icings. By J. Kessel And H. Iswolsk - Y....
net.)—The authors of this story vouch for its accuracy even in details. " There is not a statement; an anecdote, nor a suggestion which is not upheld by evidence.. It is a vivid......
The Diaries Of A Duchess. By James Greig. (hodder And
Stoughton. 18s.)—In detail the Diary of the first Duchess of Northumberland is full of entertainment and charm. As a whole it forms a very striking picture of con- trasting ways......
Fiction
THESE OLD SHADES. By Georgette Heyer. (Heinemann, 7s. 6d.)—A wicked but witty eighteenth-century Engli s h duke is the hero of this incredibly romantic but amusin g novel. He......
Some Novels In Brief Katharine Susanna Pritchard Gives Us A
novel of the Australian bush in Working Bullocks (Jonathan Cape, 7 s. 6d. net), in which the hard conditions of the life of the lumber man are realistically depicted. The charm......
The 'red Cross: The Idea And Its Development. By Colonel
Sir James Magill, K.C.B., M.A., M.D. (Cassell. 5s. net.)—Under the above heading Sir James Magill, whose name will be known to every Red Cross worker, gives a brief but......
This Week In London
FILMS. THE ADVENTURES OF MAYA. THE BEE at the Marble Arch Pavilion. A most curious and fascinating picture concerning the life-story of a bee, its enmity with a certain spider......
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