There Is Little In Justice For Hungary ! By Otto
Legraq (Offices of the Pesti Hirlap, Budapest) that has not appeared in much the same form in the various books, brochures and leaflets of the Hungarian League for Treaty......
Sir Banister Fletcher's History Of Architecture Must Be...
popular, as it is certainly one of the most respected, of books of its kind. It has been reprinted since the eighth edition of 1928, and now it appears in a ninth edition, still......
Seven Thousand In Israel. By S. Fowler Wright. (jarrolds....
6d.) The case against birth control put with much disgruntlement. The thesis is laboured, and it is a shock to find an experienced novelist wasting his talent on the false......
Sleeping Echo. By Catherine M. Verschoyle.
7s. 6d.) Although this story of a woman who adopts her divorced husband's child moves in an improbably rarefied atmosphere, it has about it a certain wistfulness and grace.......
Fiction
The Short Story Great American Short Stories. Edited by Stephen Graham. (Henn. 8s. 6d.) IT will be a good thing when critics stop arguing about what is or is not a short story,......
The Dublin Magazine Goes From Strength To Strength. The...
number justly gives pride of place to an article by W. B. Yeats, entitled " The Words upon the Window Pane," in which he discusses various aspects of the character of Swift. No......
A Labour Of Love And, Therefore, Executed With Loving Care
and the nicest attention to every good technical detail is Mr. James Maclehose's Glasgow University Press, 1638-1931 (Glasgow University Press, 14s.). This famous Press never......
The Second Mercury Story Book. With An Intro- Duction By
Robert Lynd. (Longman's. 'is. 6d.)—In this second volume of short stories collected from the London Mercury, its editor, Mr. J. C. Squire, has once more proved that his......
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The new edition of Alan Butler's The Lives of the Saints, corrected, amplified and edited' by Herbert Thurston and Norah Leeson, has reached its third volume (Burns, Oates and......
Current Literature
HISTORICAL students, whether amateur or professional, will like to know of the American Historical Association's Guid e to Historical Literature, edited by W. H. Allison, S. B.......
Forty Stay In. By John W. Vandercook. (harpers. 7s. 6d.)
An insignificant triangle story against a West African background. This with its fevers, white " Coasters, niggers and Syrians is vividly presented.......
Thunder Below. By Thomas Rourke. (chatto And Windus. 7s....
A meaty first novel about Venezuela. Mr. Rourke writes vigorously, in a manner distinctly reminiscent of Mr. Hemingway's " Fiesta."......
Which Way ? By Theodora Benson. (gollancz. 7s. 6d.) If
Claudia had managed her week-end differently what would have happened ? Miss Benson ingeniously sup- plies three samples and convinces us rather excessively that insipid......
The Old Woman Talks. By F. 0. Mann. (faber And
Faber. 7s. ed.) Mr. Mann has cleverly grouped a Cockney family and given us an excellent portrait of them through the eyes of their old mother. He writes with sympathy, insight,......
New Novels
CASSANDRA. By Reginald Berkeley. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.)— By way of inducing in the human sluggard a less hazy perspec- tive of this insensate world of ours Captain Berkeley has hit......
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