The Red Lantern. By Edith Wherry. (John Lane. 68)— This
book with its detailed account of certain phases of the Boxer rising cannot fail to interest readers at a moment when the world's eyes are turned so constantly toward affairs in China. The author writes with full knowledge of her facts, and presents an extra- ordinarily vivid picture of life in a missionary station in China, while at the same time the English reader, at any rate, will believe that he haa been afforded a real glimpse into the way in which the mind of the Chinese half-caste works. The plot is a little weak, and the character drawing, except that of the two Eurasians, is not particularly convincing; but even as fiction it is highly readable, while as a statement of existing conditions it is of the very highest interest.