7 FEBRUARY 1925, page 22

Fiction

JOSEPH CONRAD'S TALES The Black Mate was the first story that Conrad wrote ; and it shows many of the faults which he fought to overcome with a pertinacity that brought its full......

The Magazines

FEBRUARY brings us a particularly interesting batch of maga- zines, the political articles being specially worthy of notice. The Nineteenth Century contains three papers on......

Africa

Legs Parsons. By Ferdinand Berthoud. (Harrap. 7s. Od. net.) IN the heart of Africa, remote from the tracks of missionaries, and with few enough neighbours of any sort, good or......