14 DECEMBER 1912, page 24

Fiction.

Tab REEF.* Idas. WHA.RTON has been for the last dozen years in the front rank of American novelists, and her new work shows no falling-off in the qualities which have earned her......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Poems. By William Allingham. Selected and arranged by Helen Allingham.......

Summer Days In Shakespeare Land. By C. G. Harper. (chapman

and Hall. 7s. 6d. net.)—As an indefatigable traveller on English roads Mr. Harper has earned considerable gratitude for sharing his pleasures with many readers. In this volume......

Simon Brandin. By B. Paul Neuman. (john Murray. 6s.)— Mr.

Neuman's new book deals with the Russian Jew, and inci- dentally touches on the horrors of the pogrom and the Jewish Pale. There are plots and counter-plots, spies, bombs, and......

Gift-books

The Chapels Royal. By the Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair. (E. Nash. 20s. net.)—Twenty royal chapels of the United Kingdom are here described, and pictures of most of them,......

Gardens For Small Country Houses. By G. Jekyll And L.

Weaver. (Country Life Offices. 15s. net.)—Miss Jekyll has wide practical experience of gardening and special knowledge of adapting her experience to the various landscapes of......

Readable Novels.—monsieur Carnifex. By Alexander...

6s.)—A story of politics in South- eastern Europe, which events of the last three weeks have put entirely out of date.—St. Lo. By Dorothy Margaret Stuart. (Holden and......