1 AUGUST 1903, Page 23

The Turquoise Cup. By A. Cosslett Smith. (John Lane. 5s.)—

The first story in this book, "The Turquoise Cup," is frankly a fantasy, and, as such, is not ungracefully told. It is quite im- posaible, and not one of the characters could have behaved in the way represented ; but readers who like to escape from the narrow limits of the credible will find it pretty reading. The second story deals with the East, and the author has given it a breath of the romance which belongs to the desert, from which it is named. Any one who wants a pretty little book with which to lounge in a hammock on a hot afternoon may take up these stories with the assurance of finding more romance in them than is generally to be found in fiction of this description.