18 SEPTEMBER 1909, Page 25

Draw in Your Stool. By Oliver Onions. (Mills and Boon.

6s.)—This is a collection of short stories, some of them of modern fishermen, and others of historical times. They are all pleasant reading, though not quite up to the standard which Mr. Oliver Onions has set himself. Perhaps the story of the highwayman, " The Golden Farmer," is the most entertaining in the book ; but we miss the touch of poetry to which Mr. Onions has accus- tomed us. The stories, however, are most of them ingenious, and all of them readable, while in those concerned with poachers Mr. Onions shows something of his old love for country scenes.