28 NOVEMBER 1914, page 22

The Eternal Priestess. By Putnam Weale. (methuen And Co....

are very few novels written about China. It is so easy to create a pseudo-Japanese "atmosphere" with geisha and cherry-blossom. so difficult to make a Chinese setting at all......

Fiction.

ARCADIAN ADVENTURES WITH THE IDLE RICH.• Ma. STEPHEN LEACOCK, who indemnifies himself for his professorial allegiance to the dismal science by periodio excursions into the land......

Come Out To Play. By M. E. F. Irwin. (constable

and Co. 6s.)—The simplicity of this biography of one Truffles is unusual. Miss Irwin takes no account of psychology, makes no detailed inquiry into cause and effect, but gives......