Griff Of Grilithscourt. By Helen Mathers. (methuen And...
—There are a verve and "go" about Miss Mathers's writing which make the reader excuse her many shortcomings. And it must be confessed that this present book has no lack of......
Round Anvil Rock. By Nancy Houston Banks. (macmillan And Co.
6s.)—Mrs. Banks has not much of a story to tell, and she tells it in a very leisurely way. There is a certain Miss Penelope in the family to which we are introduced; one of her......
Da. Barry's Equipment, Whether We Consider His Culture,...
or his invention, is so immensely superior to that of the average writer of fiction as to ensure the attention alike of the most blase reader and the most captious critic. Some......
Alarms And Excursions. By H. B. Marriott Watson. (methuen...
Co. 6s.)—We have here eight short stories, naturally of varying value. The first, "The Mohock," has the look of a fragment from some larger tale which the author has thrown......
The Burden Of Her Youth. By L. T. Meade. (j.
Long. 6s.)—The "Burden" is a debt of a thousand pounds which Ellinor Farrant takes upon herself, after the death of her father, in the forlorn hope of paying it off by her......
The Mettle Of The Pasture. By James Lane Allen. Macmillan
and Co. 6s.)—Mr. James Lane Allen has peopled his latest book with abstractions instead of human beings. There never lived an old woman so abominable as Mrs. Conyers, and the......
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