10 JULY 1909, page 28

Novels.

THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN SMITH IN MALAYA; 1600-1605.* Tina book of fictitious adventures, which we have come across by accident, has given us a peculiar pleasure. Few kinds of......

The Magazines.

THE Nineteenth Century devotes much of its space this month to politics. The doyen of Imperial statesmen, Sir Charles Tupper, in a paper on "The Unity and Defence of the Empire"......

The Pools Of Silence. By H. De Vere Stacpoole. (t.

Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—The author of this book frankly acknowledges in a note at the beginning that it is a novel with a purpose, the purpose being once more to draw attention to......