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Trial By Ordeal. By Evan Morgan. (john Lane. 7s. 6d.

net.)—Mr. Morgan's book is an essay in the style of Mr. Stephen McKenna. It is very markedly less well written than Sonia, for instance, and its febrileness is more exaggerated.......

Fiction.

ROSE AND ROSE.* MB. E. V. Lreas's incursions into fiction never err on the side of prolixity, and Rose and Rose, compared with most Victorian romances, is no more than a longish......

The Willing Iiorse. By Ian Hay. (hodder And Stoughton. Is.

6d. net.)—By his title The Willing Horse, Mr. Ian Hay designates all those people who performed the real work of the country from the declaration of war in 1914 to the......

Poets And Poetry, Parodies Regained.*

THE first thing which will strike the reader about Mr. Knox's book of parodies will probably be what I might call its lack of aesthetic didacticism. I have always maintained......

Readable Novels.—spangles Of Existenfm By Robert...

net.)—To bo entirely successful these minute studies should each have so poignant or striking a point that the absence of background would be unnoticeable. Mr. Robert......