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Bing Up The Curtain. By J. Cranstoun Nevill. (nash. 7s.

net.)—This is a very entertaining theatrical novel of the type more or less originated by Mr. Compton Mackenzie. There is a more elaborate attempt at character drawing than is......

Poets And Poetry.

MR. HERBERT ASQUITH'S NEW VERtE.t MR. HERBERT ASQUITH is the sort of poet to whom we look for renewed confirmation of our original opinion—i.e., that he is e • Verona in the......

Readable Novels. —in. The Mountains. (macmillan. 7s. 6d....

a woman who has lost in the war all that makes life precious. The book describes how she takes two strangers into her tiny home in the Alps and the romantic result of their......

Fiction.

VERENA IN THE MIDST.* VERENA, a slightly nebulous spinster with a tendency to a halo, fell down on some ice and injured her spine. Mr. E. V. Lucas has imagined—very......

The Amenities Of Book-colleoting.*

MR. NEWTON, an American collector living in Pennsylvania, has written one of the most engaging books about books that we have read for years. Everyone who loves books will......