A Modern Epic
The Torch-bearers. Vol. : The Last voyage. By Alfred Noyes. (Blackwood. 7s. ed.) HOWEVER variously his other work may be assessed, The Torch-bearers gives Mr. Noyes a unique and......
• On The Edge. By Walter De La Mare. (faber
and Faber. 10s. 6d.)—Some of the short stories in Mr. de la Mare's new collection are frankly macabre ; others imbue " actual " life with that curiously dreamlike quality which......
The Oldest Book
' SOME fifty years ago a German Egyptologist acquired a roll of papyrus, and now for the first time we have an English 'translation. The title page states that it is translated......
The Baffle Book. Edited By F. Tennyson Jesse- (heinemann....
fid.)—This book contains twenty-eight problems in detection, the solutions of which are printed upside down at the end of the book. The reader is gives all the clues and is not......
Fiction
QUITE CONTRARY. By Paul Bloomfield. (The Bodley Head. 6s.)—We have here a pleasant little farce, written in so slyly grandiloquent a manner that at first we incline to take the......
Four Faultless Felons. By G. K. Chesterton. (cassell....
who enjoyed The Poet and the Lunatics will find here a volume equally to their taste. The present book contains four long short-stories, loosely held . together by a prologue......
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