The Archive · 1935

NEW FICTION

On meeting friends after a lapse ten years one ie always insigned 67 the subtle "changes that time hat worked in them and in one's ows felationahip to them. This tranamata-Wun ie the teiemotiy of Samuel Row: ex's "Dusk at the Grove" (Hurst Bhackett, London. 1/6)

"SMore'tham Kind" by Caroline Sea. ford (Gollsne, Lenten, 7/6) is pleasant litle "yood-nighi™ story.

real cutcand-out "thriven with a mystery as deep as could be wished by" any amateur student of crime, is "Tue Ragged Robin. Marders""'by Feason of the requirement that half Guy Morton (Skeffington, London, 'A somewhat curious story is Mr. Hal Dunning's "The Wolf Deputy" (Ward, Lock, London, 3/6.),- "wanton" Venus," which the title of Mr. Maurice Leblanc's novel (Long, London. 7/6), is too fantastic to be possible, too promiscu: ous to, be credible, too humourlese to be digestible and and too Zatuous 10 be readable.

Harry Stephen Keeler is too well liked an author and his novels are too well known to require any introduc~ tion. "Ten Hours" (Ward, Lock, London 3/6), ig one of the best of this works that' I'have read.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account