28 JANUARY 1922, page 23

Fiction.

THE LEGENDS OF SMOKEOVER.* THE first thing that will strike the reader about Mr. Jacks' Legends of Smokeover is probably the charming urbanity of the book. It is a piece of work......

Other Novels.—greensea Island. By Victor Bridges. (mills...

6d. net.)—A story of buried treasure, which, however, is on an island in England. This does not make the search for it any the less perilous, and, once the preliminaries of the......

Poets And Poetry.

PUNCH : THE IMMORTAL LIAR.* Punch : the Immortal Liar is a long, blank verse poem with an account, from various points of view, of a creature who is half Punchinello of the Comm......

Twenty-five Years In East Africa. By John Roscoe. (cam-...

University Press. 25s. net.)—Mr. Roscoe, who was formerly a missionary, is well known as an anthropologist of high repute, with a special knowledge of East Africa and Uganda.......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice to this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.; An Admiral's Yarns : Stray Memories of 50 Years. By Admiral Sir Charles Dundas of Dundas. (H. Jenkins.......