SHORTER NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21506, 22 June 1935, Page 17

SHORTER NOTICES

Change Your Skv. Bv Anna D. Whyle. The Hogarth Press. 302 pp. Through Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd. This witty novel by a New Zealand author, whose sense of character and control of plot are sympathetically subtle, was reviewed in "The Press" some weeks ago.

(i) The White Peacock. By D. H. Lawrence. (Ji) The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. By George Meredith, (iii) The Country House. Bv John Galsworthy. Nos. 914. 91G, 917, Everyman's Library: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd. (2s net each.) Three of the six latest additions to the Everyman series, the scope of which has been enlarged to include "modern" works; the other three were reviewed at length in "The Press" of June 8.

Gordon. By Bernard M. Allen. Great Lives Series: Duckworth. 139 pp. (2s net.) Mr Allen's account of Gordon's life is factually full and psychologically as coherent, probably, as any such brief sketch could be. It is noticeable that he excludes from Irs bibliography the essay in "Eminent Victorians." Only a tendency to melodramatic emphasis mars this record of a melodramatic life. The Four Gospels. The Cambridge Miscellany. Cambridge University Press. 243 pp. (3s 6d net.) The text is that of the Authorised Version, but it is paragraphed as in the Revised Version. Though the usual chapter and verse divisions are obliterated, they can be followed by reference to the page-headings. Readers who want a Bible "printed like an ordinary book," to use the jacket phrase, will find their want, in one important part, perfectly satisfied. A Dream Come True. By Pamela Wynne. W. Collins, Sons and Co., Ltd. 252 pp. The heroine slips into another girl's job, to play manageress in an Austrian castle, turned hotel, for an employer who has caught her romantic fancy: but he is so far embittered by his own romantic experience as to think only of making her pay for his disillusion. The poor chap has no hope, of course! Fire on the Wind. By John K. Ewers. Hodder and Stoughton. 342 pp. From W. 8. Smart. It was a great bush-fire which at last resolved the crisis in (he affairs of the Colliver family in Gippsland—largely because the terrible old tyrant, David Colliver, perished. Mr Ewer tells a yery lively story.