Bureaucracy -- Fiction; England -- Fiction; Satire; Science fiction
"Miss Montgomery has a rare knack of making simple events and ordinary
people both charming and moving; she can make her readers both laugh and
weep."--_Westminster Gazette._
IMPOSSIBLE PEOPLE. By Mrs. GEORGE WEMYSS.
"It is set in a captivating way among village folk drawn from life,
treated with humour and sympathy, and decorated profusely with the talk
and doings of real and interesting children." _Manchester Guardian._
THE STARRY POOL and Other Tales. By STEPHEN G. TALLENTS.
"It belongs to the class of literature which gives an intimate picture
of the writer himself, who, in this particular case, endears himself to
the reader by his humour, which is never cynical, and by his zest for
the simple, which is never forced."--_Westminster Gazette._
THE WANDERERS. By MARY JOHNSTON.
"A large theme of absorbing and growing interest is treated with great
imaginative and pictorial power; and the writer's faith and enthusiasm,
as well as her knowledge and her skilful handicraft, are
manifest."--_Scotsman._
REMNANTS. By DESMOND MACCARTHY.
"It has its own clear point of view. It reveals an engaging personality,
and its contents, though dealing with subjects as diverse as Samuel
Butler, Lord George Sanger, Meredith, Dan Leno, Voltaire and Bostock's
Menagerie, are all of a piece. That is, it is a real book of
essays."--_The Bookman._
BEYOND THE RHINE. Memories of Art and Life in Germany before the War. By
MARC HENRY.
"M. Henry discourses most entertainingly on many subjects of German
social life, and his book may be cordially recommended to those
among us who seek for enlightenment on the mentality of our
enemies."--_Scotsman._
TRIVIA. By LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH.
"It is a piece of personal good luck to have read it. One goes in and
out of one's hall door with a delicious sense of possessing a secret. It
increases one's confidence in the world. If a book like this can be
written, there is, we feel, hope for the future."--_The Athenæum._
THE LAST OF THE ROMANOFS. By CHARLES RIVET (Petrograd Correspondent of
the "Temps").
"'The Last of the Romanofs' can be recommended to one desirous of
understanding what has actually happened in Russia and what caused it to
happen."--_Globe._
ON THE EDGE OF THE WAR ZONE. By MILDRED ALDRICH, Author of "A Hilltop on
the Marne."
"They give a picture of peace in the midst of war that is both
fascinating and strange ... as an intimate sketch of one corner of the
world-war, viewed at close quarters over the garden-hedge, these little
books will have earned for themselves a place apart."--_Punch._
THE POT BOILS. A Novel. By M. STORM JAMESON.
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