15 OCTOBER 1904, Page 23

Souls of the Streets, and other Little Papers. By Arthur

Ransome. (The Lanthorn Press. 1s. 6d. net.)—This little volume is the first of a projected "Lanthorn Series." The sketches are gracefully drawn, a little vague, possibly a little sentimental here and there, but with much feeling and sense of beauty. The more there is of the human element the more we like them.