SHORTER NOTICES * Danger after Dark. By Stephen Maddock. W. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd. 251 pp. Tim Terrel again, picking up by chance, on the Balkan coast, the threads which lead him to the centre of an international conspiracy and through desperate adventures to another triumph of the Sefcret Service. Jonathan Bishop. By Herbert Gorman. Cassell. 473 pp. Through Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd. Jonathan Bishop's progress through life to death in the disorders in Paris at the end of the war of 1870. Background and story both very good. She Grew Up. By Grace Elliot Taylor. Ivor Nicholson and Watson, Ltd. 317 pp. Thef: story of a spirited girl's battle with the rough, roaring, wicked, but, after all, not so unkind world. Heroines like this end up right with ungrudging applause. Range Justice. By Frank C. Robertson. W. Collins Sons and Co., Ltd. 250 PP. Wild West, and high in its class. The cattle pirate falls a victim to piracy, engages a defender, and finds a rival in love and a creditor with a heavy score to settle. No Traveller Returns. By D. L. Ames. Ivor Nicholson and Watson, Ltd. 312 pp. In Jamaica, John Mildmarch and Bob Hazard enter upon an adventure among the shadows and secrets of Voodoo. Stirring, creepy stuff. A Pocket Dictionary of English Rhymes. Compiled by Walter Ripman, M.A. J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd. 187 pp. (3/6 net.) A reprint, at a reduced price, of Professor Ripman's excellent book, first published two years ago. The Common Sense of Nudism. By G. R. Scott, F.Z.S. 165 pp. T. Werner Laurie. (6/- net.) Mr Scott says nudism is good for the health, also nude general bathing and promenading on public beaches and in nudist colonies; but he does not quite succeed in justifying the title he uses. New Lives for Old. By J. Ellis Barker. John Murray. 372 pp. (7/6 net.) Cures everything by treating constipation and by homeopathy.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21324, 17 November 1934, Page 17
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