The Omnibus Book. No. 1. (heinemann. 8s. 6d.) —little More
can be said about the Omnibus Book than that it is a bargain. It contains two long novels and one short novel, the latter by Clemence Dane ; two long short stories by F.......
The League • Of Nations Union Comes In For Not
a little criticism these days, but no one can be blind to the educational value of its work in a country notoriously ignorant and nonchalant in questions of history or......
Viola Of The Old Street. By Princess Mirza Riza Khan
Arfa. (Grant Richards and Humphrey Touhnin. 7s. 6d.)—There is a great charm about the first two or three chapters of this excellent translation from the Swedish. The author is......
Drum And Monkey. By George Mann Ing-sanders. (faber And...
7s. 6d.)—Drum and Monkey is a rather remarkable piece of work. The story, which is brilliantly constructed, is full of drama, quite possible and legitimate drama. But while we......
The Eye In The Museum. By J. J. Connington. (gollancz.
7s. 6d.)—Great are the possibilities of the camera obscura, and Mr. Connington makes admirable use of them, withholding his information until the last possible moment, yet......
The Riddle Of The Emeralds. By Mrs. Philip Champion De
Crespigny. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.)—When Bertram Goodlake wrote a mysterious letter from Rio to his cousin Humphrey, telling him that he had bought some fine emeralds for the latter's......
Many People Consider That The Return Of The Native Is
the greatest of Mr. Thomas Hardy's novels. The new edition published by Messrs. Macmillan, at 42s. will, therefore, be a delight to them. Miss Clare Layton's woodcuts are in......
The Rev. Cyril Barker Has Put Together In Incense And
other Kinds of Sense (Vaeher and Sons, 2s. 6d.) a number of short chapters on various problems of Church life and practice. He writes from the Anglo-Catholic point of view, and......
More Books Of The Week
(Continued from page 980.) With the exception of a Christmas message from the Chairman, the Cunard Christmas Number, 1929, consists of a series of the most exquisite......
The Life Of The French Poet, Gerard De Nerval, Founder
of the Symbolist Movement, was part dream, part tragedy. In his Voyages en Orient he showed himself capable of observa- tion • and from this point of view his book is a valuable......
No Longer Can Questions Of International Law Be Left To
the sophists for academic controversy. They are germane to the slowly emerging world cosmos, and the League has not failed to register this fact by its appointment of jurists to......
The Essays In Some Comparative Values, By H. W. Fowler
(Blackwell, 5s.), are, on the whole, not quite so good as those recently reprinted in If Wishes Were Horses, by the same learned author. The pieces are shorter and do not......
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