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he loses the support of the one and the sympathy of the other.

The sincerity and power of the book are unmistakable, and the tragedy of the end is marked by a fine simplicity.

YOUNG MRS. CRUSE.
By VIOLA MEYNELL,
Author of “Columbine,” “Second Marriage,” etc.
Crown 8 vo. 7 s. 6 d. net.

The seven stories which go to make up this volume will serve to increase the author’s already well-established reputation. “The Letter,” “We were saying…,” and the story which gives its title to the book are perhaps especially noteworthy, but each in its own way is a model of what such stories should be. All is here; the imaginative outlook; the portrayal of situation, atmosphere, character with a few well-placed touches; the swiftly moving development of the theme; and, not least, the sting in the tail.

A PASSAGE TO INDIA.
By E. M. FORSTER,
Author of “Howards End,” etc.
7 s. 6 d. net.

⁂ Also a Collector’s Large Paper Edition, limited to 200 copies,
each copy signed by the Author, printed on Hand-made paper.
Demy 8 vo., price £2 2 s. net.

Reviewed by Rose Macaulay in The Daily News: “Mr. E. M. Forster is to many people the most attractive and the most exquisite of contemporary novelists…. Never was a more convincing, a more pathetic, or a more amusing picture drawn of the Ruling Race in India….

“It is an ironic tragedy, but also a brilliant comedy of manners, and a delightful entertainment. Its passages of humour or beauty might, quoted, fill several columns.”

Reviewed by Sylvia Lynd in “Time and Tide:” “Reader, lo here, at last, a great book. There have been brilliant books in recent years, witty books, original books, books written in limpid and exquisite English; but not until now has there been a book that was all these things….

“‘A Passage to India’ is a delicious and terrible book….”

From The Spectator: “Of all the novels that have appeared in England this year, Mr. Forster’s is probably the most considerable….

“‘A Passage to India’ is a disturbing, uncomfortable book. Its surface is so delicately and finely wrought that it pricks us at a thousand points…. The humour, irony, and satire that awake the attention and delight the mind on every page all leave their sting.”