OTHER NOVELS.—New Friends in Old Chester. By Margaret Deland. (John
Murray. 7s. 6d.)—Lovers of Mrs. Deland's graceful and attractive writing will hardly need a finger-post to her new volume. It contains three stories long enough for the 'development of character, and yet not so long that the reader wearies of their contents. The splendid lie of "the Eliots' Katy" will bring a lump to the throat of every mother, as, indeed, -will the whole of the story entitled "An Old Chester Secret." Altogether a most delightful and accomplished-colleetion.—Wives. By Katha- rine Tynan. (Hurst and Blackett. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Tynan has apparently set herself to depict fourteen wives who are able to make themselves either invaluable or unbear- able. Those of the studies which contain an Irish flavour are, as is usual with Mrs. Tynan, the most attractive.— Knight-at-Arms. By H. C. Bailey. (Methuen. 7s. 6d. net.) —On the whole, Mr. H. C. Bailey gives his readers more entertainment when he is writing detective stories than when be plunges into the fifteenth century. The adventures of Sibatin de St. Lo are, however, most of them exciting, although they resemble each other rather too closely ; but as it is necessary for the hero to be victorious in every encounter, it is difficult for the author to provide a variety of theme.
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