Pierrot In. Town. By Helen Ashton. (sir Isaac Pitman And
Sons. 6s.)—It cannot be denied that Miss Ashton has an unusual sense of the poetic. The central idea of her book is far from prosaic: so is the figure of Anatole (Pierrot) the......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not beef► reserved for review in other forms.] Cecil Rhodes : the Man and his Work. By Gordon Le Sueur. (John......
Readable Novels.—the Lure Of The Elate Drum. By Margaret...
(Andrew Melrose. 6s.) — A rather unpleasant story of Indian' life, with a melodramatic native villain, a multitude of adverbs, and a young man who, "plunging both hands in his......
Hoofeng Lao Jen : Letters On The Chinese Constitution. By
Sir Francis Piggott. (Butterworth and Co. 3s. net.)—This, little volume contains a series of letters contributed by Sir F. Piggott, late Chief Justice of Hong Kong, to Chinese......
The Ireland Of To-day. (john Murray. 10s. 6d. Net.)—we...
the reprint in a permanent form of the eontents . .of the " Special Irish Number '•' of the Times, which appeared-on March 17th of this year. Two or three articles have been......
Fiction.
THE LODGER• STORIES concerned with mysterious crimes for the most part focus the interest of the reader on the efforts to detect the perpetrators, the really prominent roles......
The Plain Man And His Wife. By Arnold Bennett.. (hodder
and Stoughton. 2s. 6d. net.)—It is a little difficult to understand why Mr. Bennett thinks it worth while to- publish these uninspiring though well-intentioned little sermons.......
Histoire De Canada. By Francois Xavier Garnean, Revue Et...
par Hector Garneau. Tome I. (Librairie FeliX Alcan, Paris. 10fr.)—M. Garneau's grandson has revised and brought up to date this well-known work and secured an interesting......
Buddhist Stories. By Paul Dahlke. Translated By The...
(Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—It is a pity that the translator of Mr. Dahlke's collection of Buddhist stories should here and there have attempted to reproduce the......
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