22 MAY 1909, Page 23

RSADABLZ Novar.s.—The Last Persecution. By S. N. Sedgwick. (Grant Richards.

6s.)—A terrifying story of thirty or forty years hence. It shows England under the yoke of China. A Christian persecution, mediaeval in its details, is the chief subject of the book.--Holborn Hill. By Christian Tearlo. (Mills and Boon. Os.)—A good story of London in the days of the Napoleonic War.-4 Resemblance, and other Stories. By Clare Benedict. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. Os.)—Here we have ten short stories. "Comrades" is very good; "An Interchange of Courtesies" and "Roderick Exton's Children" are not far behind. The average of the whole is high.—Treasure Trove. By C. A. Dawson Scott. (William Heinemann. Os.)—Readere who do not object to a story with a sharply pointed moral —the fiction of to-day is not strong in morals—will be pleased with this story, which, one or two improbabilities conceded, La very good.