2 NOVEMBER 1901, Page 48

The Queen's Shilling. By Geraldine Glasgow. (T. Nelson and Sons.

ls.)—We do not care for the domestic tragedy which sends the hero to the recruiting sergeant. Doubtless incon- venient codicils have been thrown into the fire, but we cannot bring ourselves to believe that "Aunt Louisa" was the woman to do such a thing. But when Martin is lodged in the barracks he becomes interesting. There is fighting, of course, and we are glad to be taken, for a change, to the Soudan rather than to South Africa.