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Paul Levi, London, England--Blundell's School, Tiverton, England...
...Tiverton, R. I. early wanderers came upon the strangled body of a student nurse. This was the only mystery in the list for which a solution was offered and an indictment brought: one Elliott R. Hathaway surrendered...
...SQUARE CIRCLE-Denis Mackail- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Charles Dickens would have liked this book. It ought to be good enough for most people. Author Mackail has made himself the chronicler of London's "Tiverton Square" -one of those quiet upper-middle-class residential oases in the roaring metropolitan desert. Like Manhattan's Gramercy Park, the Square has a sacred enclosure to which only residents have a key, and within the pale stands the statue of some respectable and forgotten person. Children play there while their nurses gossip; from most of the Square's houses sober citizens...
This anonymous author, probably a woman, whose almost supernatural gift for intuitive writing was responsible for 'Miss Tiverton Goes Out,' has produced a significant psychological study. The importance of the book dwells in the amazing quality which the author has for under-standing and analyzing human* conflict, subconscious reaction...
Until Dr. Phelps's memory mends, "Miss Tiverton" will serve. The lady's second offering fully merits the company of her first. Maidens revolt in every third novel these days but here is a maiden whose technique is neither kittenish nor hoydenish. Motherless Letty Monckton is a British country gentlewoman with as much poise as poetry about her. Her flight from the bosom of Moncktonism?father, manor, cousins, suitor ?to the humbler hearth and home of Andrew Bullen, tweeded biologist, is not like the flapping of a decapitated chicken but like the career of a startled teal, which will...