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Collins And Co. By Captain Jack Elliott. (george Allen And

lJnwin. 6s.)—Of the great crowd of detective novels which are published in the course of a year, there are a few which, by reason either of their merits or of their faults, can......

The S.s. ' Glory.' By Frederick Niven. Illustrated By Fred

Holmes. (William Heinemann. 3s. 6d. net.)—It is a rare pleasure for a reviewer to come across a novel which is wholly original, which breaks new ground, not only in its style or......

Stendhal's Famous Work De 'arnour Has Just Been...

English under the title On Love, by Mr. Philip Woolf and Mr. Cecil Woolf (Duckworth and Co., 7s. 6d. net). The book is carefully edited with an introduction and notes and the......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily predude subsequent review.] Historic Jamaica. By F. Cundall. (Published for the Institute of Jamaica by the West India Committee,......

Line-upon-line Russian Reader. By Colonel A. Jamieson...

and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Many English people are trying to learn Russian. We cannot see that they can really learn the language from this small volume, which teaches nothing of......

Fiction.

THE LIEUTENANT AND OTHERS.* - Tits author of Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E., in the brief preface to his new volume of war sketches, expressly disavows any claim to be......