... TALKING ABOUT BOOKS A Critical Causerie of Good Reading By Richard King THIS WEEK'S BOOKS Mainly About Women, by Alfred Edye Bles 3s. 6 d. The Tramp of the Young Men, by Francis Cunynghame (Simpkin) 7 s. 6 d. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie {Collins), 7 s. 6 d. WOMEN are by nature possessive. I don't mean to say they love to hoard (as a rule they don't); but what ...

... The House in Half Moon Street by Hector Bolitho (Cobden-Sanderson, 7s. 6d.) BEST known as a biographer, Mr. Bolitho here offers fourteen short stories written during the last twelve years, and all (most sensibly) dated These stories are good and what is more, progressively good, the latest being the subtlest and the most profound. They place the author high among contem porary writers of ...

... Dr. Ibrahim Dr. Ibrahim by John Knittel (Hutchinson, 7s. 6d.) (Hutchinson, 7s. 6d.) THIS, too, is a story about a doctor a young Egyptian with strong Nationalist leanings and a gift of healiDg. Like all Mr. Knittel's books, this one provides a memorable and unusual experience for the reader. It has, moreover, a topical interest, for it shows us the appearance, in Egyptian eyes, of our fellow ...

... Books: Reviewed by Arnold Palmer Ll. G. and H.G.: The Awful Past, The Worse F uture ANYONE who has the time and the wish to refresh his memory of English history during the last thirty years and to study the chances of our national future might do worse than settle down to the four or five new books which I have just been reading. He could begin with The Post Victorians (Ivor Nicholson and ...

... by E. V. Lucas (Methuen, 8s. 6d.). MR. LUCAS'S third guide-book to London, his two previous ones A Wanderer in London and London Revisited having been rendered partly obsolete by changes in the metropolis, is now published with 16 plates in colour, the work of H. M. Livens. A first edition, without these illustrations, was brought out a year a crrt ...

... : Reviewed by Trevor Allen NOVELISTS may hate this war, which destroys literary detachment, slashes royalties, and cuts paper supplies, but they cannot escape it. The Fiction Front widens. Three novels in this batch concern the present eruption, although one, refusing to be intimidated, merely has the laugh on it. I refer with chuckles to Envoy on Excursion (Michael Joseph 8s.), by Caryl ...

... |THEWeek.IN THE Libkhrx ff THE NEWEST BOOKS, By Frederick Eleath. It is with the deepest regret that I have to chronicle the untimely death of that delightful member of our team, Bphun Lynch. He and I had been friends for many years. The friendship was to have been knit even closer through BRITANNIA. Now it is severed perhaps eternally. A brilliant writer, a brilliant caricaturist, a sound ...

... Fresh Air from Spain By Maitland Davidson A BREATH of fresh air has blown across our stage, all the way from Spain. Just a simple kind of breeze in its way, though not ordinary or commonplace. And the source of this very human afflatus is the limpid but anything but shallow talent of the brothers Quintero, two of whose plays are providing, at the Court Theatre, a very delightful entertainment. ...

... : by Helen Beauclerk (Collins, os. 6d.) IN this well-produced volume, with its dust cover designed by Edmund Dulac, are four love stories, tne earliest set m prenistoric times, tne latest J. LI L11C lllbt y Cdl U1 L11C LI II I CI CC11LU1 J XX. XJ. Cb pclIOU t/.t tending from before Paganism to the beginning of the Christian era. It is very difficult to create the his torical illusion, and ...

... by Professor V. De Sola Pinto (Bodley Head, 8s. Cd.) H. M. Stanley: by Frank Hird (Stanley Paul, 18s.) JOHN WILMOT, 2nd Earl of , friend of Charles II, poet, satirist, sailor, libertine and death-bed convert, was one of those brilliant aristocrats whose worth is so much harder to estimate than that of humbler men. Every schoolboy knows (though he may not be able to attribute) 's lines about ...

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... : Reviewed by Trevor ^Alleu WHATEVER the limitations on actual travel to-day, there are none on armchair substitutes. about places tumble from the press, and personally I love them, for in prodding the wanderlust they also assuage it-- by proxy. Ann Bridge and Susan Lowndes, jaunt ing off the beaten track in a small car, serve well The Selective Traveller in Portugal (Evans, 21s.), that sunny ...