7 APRIL 1917, page 16

Fiction.

WE are introduced to such a number of people at the beginning of Mr. McKenna's novel and the manner of introduction is so allusive that the effect at first is a little......

The England Of Shakespeare.• Mr. Drrennerss Has Written A...

book, and one that will appeal alike to students of Shakespeare seal to those—and they are many— who love to reconstruct in fancy the England of a bygone, and, as some maintain,......

The Reserved Sacrament.*

Ma. FREESTONE'S book,' beautifully printed for the Alcuin Club, is an historical inquiry into the custom of reserving the Sacrament during the first twelve centuries of the......

The Volunteer, And Other Poems.t

Au. lovers of good poetry will welcome the new edition of Mr. Herbert Asquith's volume of poems, The Volunteer. A considerable number of poems writt en or published since the......