Beyond Hell. By Stephen Mckenna. (chapman And Hall. 7s....
punishment is abolished. Murderers of all nations are concentrated on a remote South Sews island. This exciting but gruesome story (Which might serve as anti-abolitionist......
A Vast Literature Has Gathered Round The Immune Of Abraham ,
Lincoln, most of itindiseriminating,ly laudatory. Mr. Edgar Lee Masters (who from internal evidence seems to be an American writer) is in his Lincoln : the Man (Cassell, 21s.)......
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The actions off Coronel and the Falklands, in which a German squadron destroyed an English squadron, and was itself destroyed six weeks later, were memorable episodes of the......
The Pious No Longer Hurl Inkpots At The Devil Or
find thcm- selves compelled to counter his persistent assaults by means of fisticuffs, yet the problem of Evil remains as mysterious as ever. The Story of the Devil (Macmillan,......
How Like A God. By Rex Stout. (kennerley. Ts. 6d.)—
Before ironical titles were invented, this novel would have been called The Worm that Turned. A wilfully eccentric technique rather spoils a convincing study of the Freudian......
Deep Evening. By Eugene Lohrke. (cape. Ys. 6d.)— Only Three
hours elapse from the moment when—" Going up- ward on the iron foremast ladder of the ' Glamorland ' Able Sea.. man James Morgan seemed to be disappearing slowly through a......
Tile Phantom Future. By Henry Seton Merriman. (john...
Od.)—The only story of Merriman's whose scene is laid entirely in England has particular interest for us now, because it gives a picture of Bohemian life in London in 1880. The......
New Novels
DARK BRIDWELL. By Vardis Fisher. (Gollanez. 6d.)—We have here the sort of hook that is the despair of a reviewer, because it makes him turn out from his mind's store such stale......
Fiction
Volcano Volcano. By Amabel Williams-Ellis. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) Mies. WiLirasis-Erris ranges a wide field. The first of her long and short stories of revolution in Russia takes us......
Current Literature •
MRS. PEF.L'S book, The Stream . of Time (The Bailey Head, 18s.), is very cleverly conceived. Her aim is to depict social life in England between 1805 and 1861. A wealth of -......
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