4 DECEMBER 1897, Page 9

The Knights of Rose - Mullion. By Esmil Stuart. (National Society.)—On the

whole, this story is cleverly managed. Ivo Palmer is a very romantic lad who finds himself exactly in his element when he is transported, with the rest of his family, to the old house which his father has bought on an island in Lake Deepwater. Miss Stuart's art is shown in making him neither too much of a King Arthur, nor too much of a Don Quixote. Ho actually does accomplish some deliverances, though we laugh at the way in which he idealises commonplace things and persons into the scenes and characters of romance. The practical Katie takes the part of Sancho Panza in a pretty way.