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Two LIVING AND ONE DEAD. By
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L&T Me Co. By Flora Sandstrom.
(Heinemann, 75. Od.). PHILIP GLENN Bynx Mohr. (Sidgwick and Jackson. si). ALIAS
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BLACKSHIRT. By Bruce Graeme, (Harrap. 3. 6d.). YE DRUNKEN DANIOZEL By Simon Jesty. (Boriswood, 7s. d.).
VERSION. By DESIRE-SPANISH
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Evelyn Exton, and Hall, 79, d.). "Two Living and One Dead," by Sigurd Christiansen, readable, and intelligent. Mr. Christiansen plunges into his tale right away, and his opening sentence is admir able. One Friday evening," he writes," something happened that startled a whole city, and bread It is consternation everywhere" impossible to resist such a begin. ning, and at once we have a pro- ble set before us..
A post office is raided by armed bandits. Three employees are on duty. One is shot, another, taken by surprise and without heroism, is alightly injured, while the third has to decide between aurrendering the money or being murdered.le married man and a father; he realises that the bandite will take the money anyway, and he, therefore, surrenders.
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The book of talks with Musto tint which Emil Ladwig recently wrote, is to appear in English. The "talks" were so frank, and so frankly recorded, that they have made some stir in Italy. Herr Ludwig has another book of the purely biographical sort in nand.
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Many books have been written about Napoleon's period of exile at St. Helena, the best known be ing those by his companions. Las Cases and Montholon. Until the publication of General Gourgaud's diary in 1800, there was, however, no straightforward, record of the conditions under which Napoleon lived and of Sir Hudson Lowe's treatment of him. This diary has been translated into English for the first time by Mr. Sidney Gillard, edited by Mr. Norman Edwards, and will be published by John Lane,
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There is no end to the literary treasure of the English Bible and New Testament, not to speak of them for the titles taken from modern volumes. The Irish nove list, "George A. Birmingham," who is Canon Hannay, has been impressed by the hitherto unused Here is an interesting situation. material in the Wisdom Books of The third man has acted rational- the Old Testament and Ecclesine ly and wisely, but public opinion ticus, and in the Wisdom of Bole accuses him of cowardice and mon in the Apocrypha. He has even his wife eventually blames accordingly, made an anthology of him for not risking his life. What the striking passages, which Benn is more, he is tormented by doubts will publish as "Words of Wis himself, and has to stand by while dom." the injured man becomes a hero, i and is promoted ever his head.
Mr. Christiansen writes vividly and shrewdly. His style is simple, and, although he wastes no words, his characters have vitality, and the narrative never falters. A firmly constructed, original,
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"Let Me Go," by Flora Sand- strom, which is apparently a first novels by two well-known writers charts to break the list.out of its Sandstrom of the younger generation, Mr trading range on the up-eide are novel. If it is Miss shows considerable promise, for Ernest Hemingway and Mrs. there is a welcome maturity about Naomi Mitchison. In his "Fiesta,"cting with strong resistance. her work. She has chosen a fami- Mr. Hemingway had descriptions liar theme, a sort of adult Peter of Spanish bull fighting, and he returns to that subject in his now Pan in modern life. Mitzia is a girl who could not grow up, in story. Mrs. Mitchison, in her com- the sense that she could not abide ing tale, projects berself and her the restrictions of ordinary conven thoughts into the distant future, tional existence. She was an artist in "The Powers of Light" she living with a young Scandinavian looked back on the far past. journalist, but she suddenly decid- ed that she must go to Germany, where she joined a circus. From the circus, and from the designs of its proprietor, incidentally, she
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"Philip Glenn," by Max Mohr, is a novel overladen with theorising And Teutonic solemnity. The scene is laid in the Karwendel Moun- tains, wherever they may be, and there we see the famous Xaver A connected and dispassionate Ragaz, a climber and explorer, re- account of the events leading up turning home after a particularly to the recent revolution in Spain triumphant expedition. He is the was already overdue, and Mr. man of action, and with him we Bencourt's admirable volume de have contrasted various other quately supplicz the want. types, so that the book develops This book tells the reader just Liggett and Myers
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