Fiction
Four Novels Ma. COMPTON Aiwa - Es - ma has always had a particular gift for evoking the past. His first novel was a tour de force, clearing the way for the three that followed......
American Beauty. By Edna Ferber. (heinemann. 7s....
more proves herself a con- summate story-teller. She takes the very varied fortune; of a Connecticut farm founded by an Englishman in 1700, and tells of all its strange......
Ordinary People. By Rosita Forbes. (ens-sell. 7s. 6d.)...
people in exacting and exciting situations, moral and physical.......
The Spy Net. By -tired White. (eyre And Spottiswoode, 7s.
6d.)—The American Secret Service at work, described in an effective but melodramatic story set in Switzerland during the last year of the War.......
Misogyny Over The Week-end. By Ronald Mcnair Scott....
house-party novel which consists, as Rodney the misogynist observed, " almost entirely of talk." The formula is as old as Peacock, but the guests are well chosen, and the talk......
Colonel Grant's To-morrow. By Graham Farm. (thornton...
further adven- tures in love and war of one Colonel Grant, who, gallantly opposing the French Legionaries, wins the hand of an Arab princess and independence for her tribe. By......
None Of My Business. By David Sharp. (berm. 7s. 6d.)—an
unusual but inconclusive story • of crime where curiosity plays a predominant part in unravelling the mystery. Well written in an easy flowing style.......
Hotel Acropolis. By Drieu La Rochelle. (nash And Grayson....
6d.)—Modern European habits and intrigue look particularly futile when staged in Athens and com- petently produced by M. La Rochelle. The soliloquies of which his cosmopolitan......
Easting Down. By Gregory Stapleton. (nash And Grayson....
between England and China are the joy of Commander Stapleton's heart, and he describes several delightfully. The tea-clipper's race home is particularly fascinating. Sandwiched......
New Novels
THE MAN OF SUBSTANCE. (Hurst and Blackett. 7s. 6d. This long, full novel by Mr. Arthur Hodges, an American author, may be said to have all the virtues but one. It is an......
Wind In His Fists. By Phyllis Bottome. (collins 7s. 6d.)—a
Tyrolean romance, complete with extravagant scenery, picturesque peasants and nobles, all in the pure Hollywood manner, in which a handsome villain indulges in a few heroics and......
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