Current Literature Human Society Is In A Transition Stage...
the passive acceptance of war as inherent in the scheme of things and the state of international relations which postulates peace. Public opinion in every country holds firmly......
Cornish Drolls. Compiled From Bottrell By Sarah L. Enys....
Plymouth. 5s.)—Legends of Cornish Giants, Sorcerers, Fairies, Ghosts and the Devil, all taken from William Bottrell's contributions to the Cornish Telegraph some sixty . years......
Gwendra Cove. By C. C. Rogers. (jordan's Bookshop. Truro....
to Cornwall will find a good deal of information in Lady Vivian's sketches of West Country placvs and people. She is pleasantly ironical in some places, but too apt to stress......
At The Height Of The Holiday Season It May Be
worth while to draw attention to the excellent leaflets issued by the Scapa Society, whose address is 71 Eccleston Square, Bel- grave Road, London, S.W. 1. No, 3, on "Litter,"......
The Winning Trick. By Neville Brand. (john Lane. 7s. 6d.)—"
Big spies have little spies . . . . and so ad infinitum." A thrilling catch-as-catch-can yam of the secret service, which suggests a particularly lurid film scenario.......
New Novels
THE YOSHIWARA. By Tadishge Matstunoto. (Henry Walker. 6s.)—The irritatingly artless style adds to the monotony of the long family history recounted in the first of these love......
People And Things, By Harold Nicolson (constable, Ss.), A...
of Mr. Nicolson's wireless talks, and since, as he says in his preface, no alteration whatever has been made, he is to be congratulated. For these occasicuil spoken essays and......
Fiction
The Wheel and the Cog THESE four novels are all inspired by pity for humanity "in the fell clutch of circumstance "—for men and women as cogs in the relentlessly spinning wheel......
The Crime Without A Flaw. By Leslie Despard. (nash And
Grayson. 7s. 6d.)—A patient and ingenious reconstruction of an imaginary 'crime in a very realistic setting of an English country town.......
The Upfold Farm Mystery. By A. Fielding. (crime Club. 7s.
6d.)—After amateur detectives have failed to solve the Upfold Farm mystery, Scotland Yard takes up the case and produces a surprising solution. A good, briskly written story.......
The House In The Square. By Margaret H. Watt. (grant
and Murray, 126 Princes Street, Edinburgh. 7s. 6d.)—A charmingly sentimental Scottish romance of 1858, which reads like a" find " from old family papers. An Italian political......
A Mystery In Glass. By Eclwyn Kilvington. (houghton...
35 Great Pulteney Street, W. 1. 7s. 6d.)— Original in plo t and in characterization, but the story is a little thin. The criminologist's method of soothing his nerves by......
The Emerald Necklace (by A. R. And R. K. Weekes,
Ward Lock, 7s. fid.) was confiscated by the Bolsheviks, who sold it to the reigning Prince of Neuberg, who gave it to his mistress, who lost it in the arms of an agent of —. If......
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