29 OCTOBER 1927, page 44

Fiction

Nymph and Schoolboy Jeremy at Crayle. By Hugh Walpole. (Cassell. 7s. Gd.) IT is almost inevitable that the immediate successor of a really triumphant novel should be something......

Here Comes An Old Sailor. By Alfred Tresidder Sheppard....

and Stoughton. 7s. 6c1.)—This is essentially a poet's novel, which, though realistic enough in places and abounding in humour, is illuminated throughout by a quiet, inner glow......

Uncle Tom Pudd : A Biographical Romance. By Laurence...

(Cape. 6s.}—The publishers ask if Uncle Tom Pudd was a real person. In his introduction, Mr. Housman says : " It may well be that he comes here as an unbelievable character."......

Alien Corn. By Phyllis Hambledon. (sampson Low, Marston...

7s. 6d.)—This delightful story is con- cerned with the marriage of a girl of Polish origin, but brought up in Bohemian circles in France, with a typical member of the English......