Onslaught. By Joan Sutherland. (cassell. 7s. 6d.) —miss...
passion and virility to an old plot. Two women of widely different temperaments are in love with Lionel Kent. Simone St. Auban is an exquisite, sensual,' cynical woman of the......
The Mystery Of Uncle Bollard. By H. De Vere Stacpoole.
(Cassell. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Stacpoole's last book, Goblin Market, was of a quality so charming and unusual, that one resents this swift, but crude, narrative, in which a criminal......
Shot On The Downs. By Canon Victor L. White- Church.
(T. Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d.)—As in The Crime at Didna's Pool, the author wrote the first chapter, describing the scene of the crime, before he had conceived the plot of the story.......
The Goldfish. By Robert Lynd. (methuen. 5s.)— Mr. Lynd Once
wrote an essay which opened on a quietly plaintive note deprecating the attitude of a critic who had ` levelled a charge of excessive kindliness " against him, and although he......
It Happened Like This. By Eden Phillpotts. (hutchinson....
his own Farmer Dean, Mr. Phillpotts can " size up his neighbours tolerable correct most times." These new short stories reveal him in various charac- teristic moods. Some of......
The Wayward Man. By St. John G. Ervine. (collins. 7s.
6d.)—The expectations aroused by the first part of this novel are not fulfilled by the second. The early chapters give an extraordinarily living and intimate picture of a......
The Bacchante And The Nun. By Robert Hichens." (methuen. 7s.
6d.)—The Bacchante and the nun are combined in Valentine Morris, an actress who steps from obscurity into the full limelight of the London stage, but eventually enters a......
New Wine. By Geoffrey Moss. (hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) —mr....
Moss shows us in his new novel the cabaret life of Roumania in a very unpleasant aspect. Tim Malone, the sick horse trainer, and Toni, his plucky French wife, who earns their......
The Devil On Two Sticks. By Rene Le Sage. With
an Introduction by Arthur Symons. Illustrated by Philip Hagreen. (Privately printed for the Navarre nociety. 17s. 6d.)—Le Diable Boiteuve, if less famous than Gil Bias, has been......
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COLLECTED PHYSICAL PAPERS. By Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose. (Longmans. 10s.)—Professor Bose has of recent years been much before the public in connexion with his work on the......
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