SHORTER NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21584, 21 September 1935, Page 17

SHORTER NOTICES

A History of Europe. Vol. Two: Rena's'WJice. Reformation. Reason. By the R + * Hon. H. A. L. Fisher. Eyre and Spottiswoode. (18/- net.) This book is the subject of a leading article in "The PresV' to-day. The Sleeping Child. By Alice Grant Rosman. Hodder and Stoughton. 310 pp. From W. S. Smart. A child grows up, in the care of relatives, to an age when she falls in love; and then her happiness is endangered by a terror that starts up from the past. A story told gracefuJUy and with insight Beauty's Daughter. By Kathleen Norris. John Murray. 412 pp. A girl who had hardened her heart against men and marriage, as she followed her mother's unhappy career, is led by Mrs Norris to a happier state than disillusion. It is a journey which will please many readers.

The Sussex Cuckoo. By Brian Flynn. John Long. 288 pp. Through Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. A slightly freakish quality in the plot does not detract from the interest of this very well written twocorpse detective story. Mixed Pickles. By Neil Bell. W. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd. 314 pp. Twenty-two short stories by a versatile writer. Some melodramatic ones go off with a very fine bang. Mr Bell throws in an amusing, unimportant preface. Pipe All Hands. By "Sinbad." George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd. 383 pp. "Sinbad" (Captain A. E. Dingle) repeats the resounding success of "Spin a Yarn, Sailor," in this new book of sea stories. There is no need to say more.

Tell the Bees. By Matilda Brinkley. The Moray Press. 309 pp. There are many interests, including the dark ones of witchcraft and unhinged mind and that of crossed loves, in this romance of Henry Vll.'s period, set in Warwickshire. The physical and social background is well touched in. , The Woman Who Stopped War. By G. Cornwallis-West. Hutchinson. 286 pp. Through Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. An idealistic melodrama. A woman whose husband had been killed in the Great War formed an international feminist league against war. It succeeded, but its success ruined the millionaire arms manufacturer whose mistress she had become to get the money to make it succeed. But by this time they were nobly in love, so it was all right about his being ruined. The Brierley ffiose. By Leslie Haylen. Angus and Robertson, 281 pp. (6/-.) A good Australian novel, of the kind of which there have beerj several good examples—the family saga, the background of colonial history, the love story firmly in the centre. Winds of Fate. By F. Bennett. The . Bennett Publishing Co. 326 pp. Lord Curzon's celebrated valet, Arketall, when startled, used to say "Crakey!" It is impossible to think of anything better to say, after reading this astonishing, ridiculous book.