26 JANUARY 1907, page 37

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this lusting we =Bee much Books of the week as have net been reserved for review in other forms.] The Russian Government and the Massacres. By E. S6ranoff. (John Murray.......

C Urrent Lite Rat Ure.

THE QUARTERLIES. The most important article in the Edinburgh Review is a careful study of the, new problem which faces Lord Cromer in Egypt. Formerly the task of the British......

The Penniless Millionaire. By David Christie Murray....

no story concerning the theft of a mysterious Eastern jewel can claim to be original, Mr. Christie Murray may be congratulated on the great diversity of thrills with which he......

Novels.

THE EMPTY HOUSE.* THE art of writing ghost stories, if it cannot be called a lost art, is at least one in regard to which the present generation are hardly in a position to......

The Fruit Of The Tree. By Florence Teignmouth Shore And

William Teignmouth Shore. (Hutchinson and CO. 6s.)—Apart from the extremely conventional attitude of the heroine, Cynthia Keiglaley—which is necessary if we are to believe in......