Antony Vanroy. By J. Chartres Molony. (methuen. ; • 7s.
6d.)—A pleasant Irish-Indian tale of love and advezi: tore, which can be read without any undue strain except on the reader's credulity. •......
The Ninth Immortal. By F. Hadland Davis. (eric Partridge....
6d.)—Thirty tales of China and Japan, all exquisitely written, a few are pointed, but the majority are hardly worth the elaborate grace of their telling.......
Some Books Of The Week Tut: Advent Of The Gramophone
has given us a chance to compare the voices of singers who flourished in the first decade of this century with the voices since arisen ; but it came, alas, too late to record......
Fiction
Mr. Arlen and Others Charlotte's Row. By H. E. Bates. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) Imagine a Man in a Box. By H. Russell Wakefield. (Philip Allan. 7s. 6d.) The Free Trapper. By Frank B.......
Mr. Charles Pears Is An Experienced Amateur Yachtsman Who...
his own books. His narrative of a cruise from the Thames to Penzance, South Coast Cruising (Arnold. 12s. 6d.), has a double purpose. It can be read as a pleasant narrative which......
Burnt White. By Fay Woods. (cassell. 7s. 6d.)— A Rather
drab story about a dull and virtuous youth, who worked his way from a station kiosk to a Liverpool bank, and thence to Chancery Lane. He has one lapse; but, of course, " wins......
The Superbly Got-up. The Pegasus Book (constable, 23s.)....
W. E. Lyon edits, is horse-history for the year that is gone. Horse-history and also brief notes on such of the human race, at home and abroad, as ride or - drive, hunt or show,......
New Novels
KOSTIA THE COSSACK. By P. N. Krassnoff. (Allen and Unwin. 12s. 6d.)—The Don Cossacks of the seventeenth century provide a fresh and vivid setting for a good adventure story of......
Lenin. By F. A. Ossendowski. (constable. 7s. Some Will Think
this " novelised biography " in question: able taste. Others may relish the antics of a Quilp-like monster labelled Lenin.......
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The life of a country postman has often caught the attention of novelist, essayist, and poet. Seen from outside (in pleasant weather), it looks attractive, with its open air,......
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" Among the few leaves of miscellaneous verse and prose which John Donne the younger added to the edition of his father's poems in 1650," writes Mrs. Simpson in her introduction......
Kinloch-moidart's Dirk. By Lord Sands. (black- Wood. 7s....
Scottish tales based on history and legend. Lord Sands knows the art of using a severely matter-of-fact style to set off unusual occurrences.......
General Knowledge Questions
Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best set of questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss E. M. Bancroft, 20 Maltese Road, Chelmsford, for the following: Questions on......
Out Of The Dark. By " Seamark." (hodder And Stoughton.
7s. 6d.)—A job lot of short stories of three continents and as many centuries by the most vigorous • and versatile of our minor Kiplings.......
Salute To Cyrano. By Paul Feval. (longmans Green. 7s....
de Bergerac, the great D'Artagnan, "The Man in the Iron Mask," and Cardinal Mazarin all combine to make a gallant book. The story is full of sword-play, swagger and high......
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