Review - Includes 'Novels of the Day', the regular Friday book review and literary column. The works reviewed include : The Lovers of Astrea, by J. G. Sarasin ; Rynox, by Philip Macdonald ; The Yomah - and After, by 'Shalimar' (F. C. Hendry) ; The Lady of Ascot, by Edgar Wallace ; Young Leslie, by R. J. White ; Rich and Strange, by Dale Collins ; Mosaic, by G. B. Stern ; Shallow Seas, by Richard Dehan ; Plain Murder, by C. S. Forester ; and English Short Stories (a selection of stories by various 19th and 20th century English writers, published by Angus and Robertson), (p. 6).
Column - Includes the item 'Christmas Books'. The two recommendations are : A Dozen Dogs or So, by Patrick R. Chalmers, and New Cautionary Tales, by Hillaire Belloc, (p. 6).
Column - Also includes the column 'Latest Publications', a list of recently published books. These include : The Shadow on the Steppe, by Mabel B. Billett ; Uncle William, and Other Stories, by Douglas G. Browne ; The Physiognomist, and Other Tales, by H. M. Budgett ; Susan Price, by Edith C. Brown ; The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl, by Italo Svevo (trans. Collison-Morley) ; In the Days of Gold, by James B. Hendryx ; The Bitter Tea of General Yen, by Grace Z. Stone ; and Bran the Bronze-Smith, by Joyce Reason, (p. 6).
Column - Also includes 'A Library List', a series of book recommendations. These include : Staying with Relations, by Rose Macaulay ; The Lovers of Astrea, by J. G. Sarasin ; Rynox, by Philip Macdonald ; The Passage, by Vance Palmer ; On Forsyte 'Change, by John Galsworthy ; Peregrine, by B. Dyke Acland ; The Remorse of Monsieur Le Cure, by Helen Boulnois ; Only the Morning, by John Dalley ; The Lover of Lamballe, by H. G. Page ; The Man Who Made Gold, by Hillaire Belloc ; The Minion, by Rafael Sabatini ; The Middle Watch, by Ian Hay ; The Lucky Lawrences, by Kathleen Norris ; The Fool of the Family, by Margaret Kennedy ; Mosaic, by G. B. Stern ; Shallow Seas, by Richard Dehan ; Very Good, Jeeves!, by P. G. Wodehouse ; Earth Battle, by Dorothy Cottrell ; Out of Great Tribulation, by H. A. Vachell ; The Happy Windmill, by A. A. Thomson ; The King Against Anne Bickerton, by Sydney Fowler ; The Shadow Crook, by Aidan de Brune ; The Edwardians, by Vita Sackville-West ; Storm Drift, by Ethel M. Dell ; The Water Gypsies, by A. P. Herbert ; Diana Dauntless, by Paul Kester ; Rift Valley, by Florence Kilpatrick ; Dress of the Day, by W. B. Logan ; Red Wagon, by Eleanor F. Smith ; White Face, and The Lady of Ascot, both by Edgar Wallace, (p. 6).
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