Spindle And Plough. By Mrs. Henry Dudeney. (w. Heine- Mann.
6s.)—Mrs. Pilgrim and her daughter Shalisha lived in genteel poverty at Syden ham—the mother given up to ridiculous flirtations, the daughter to strenuous reaction against the......
The Potter And The May. By Maud Howard Peterson. (hodder
and Stoughton. 6s.)—The story opens in America with the narrow escape from drowning of three children, two boys and a girl, who grow up into the principal characters. The girl......
The World And Winslow. By Edith Henrietta Fowler. (hodder...
Stoughton. 6s.)—There is something pleasant about this book, even though the slight thread of story is too thinly drawn out, and the characters are not strong enough to bear all......
A Modern Antaeus. By The Writer Of "an Englishwoman's...
(John Murray. 6s.)—Was this story written to show how nearly Mr. George Meredith's manner could be copied? Anyhow, the result is an interesting book, though some readers will be......
The Lover's Progress. Told By Himself. (chatto And...
Lover's Progress is a book that evidently owes its existence to the not uncommon mistake by which simple-minded, yet complacent, people imagine that because a literary genius......
Current Literature.
WHAT'S WHAT, 1002. What's What, 1902. By Harry Quilter, M.A. (Sonnenschein and Co. 6s. net.)—The first and most obvious criticism on this volume is that it is as the tower which......
Cynthia's Way. By Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick. (edward Arnold....
was a very charming young heiress who, wearying of facile successes and the interested attentions of detrimental aristocrats, determined to take a leaf out of the book of......