A Humble Lover. By Miss Betham-edwards. (hurst And...
a novel of the old-fashioned kind, a description which is as far as possible from disparagement. There is no problem of life in it, no pessimism, no cynicism,— unless we are to......
C Urrent Literat Ure.
SOME BOOKS ON THE EDUCATION ACT. The Education Act, 1902. By Montague Barlow and H. Masan. (Butterworth and Co. 35. 6d. net.)—This book will be useful to those who wish to......
The Tideway. By Austin Clare. (chatto And Windus. 6s.)— I
very modern " note " is given to this story by the curtain rising on a prologue of which a battlefield on the veld is the scene. However, the story soon leaves South Africa, and......
Outside And Overseas. Edited By George Makgill. (methuen...
6s.)—This story suggests various reminiscences. We think of the " Sentimental Journey " when we read of a Boer woman "with half her hair in curl-papers," the said curl-papers......
Novels.
" CROPPIES LIE DOWN."* MR. BUCKLEY'S novel has many of the unmistakable signs of a first venture. He has not yet mastered the art of omission, and in his conscientious desire to......
The-sword Of Asiraet. By John Hayman, Major-general, Lat...
Edited by R E. Forrest. (Methuen and Co. 6i.) —There is little. literary merit about The Sword of Airaet, the value of the book depending entirely on the bona-fides of "John......
Silk And Steel. By H. A. Hinkson. (chatto And Windus.
6s.) —This is a story of the days of Charles I., to which the adjective " bustling " is eminently appropriate. From Whitehall to the Netherlands, Paris, and Ireland is the hero......
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