22 OCTOBER 1904, Page 22

The Princess Passes. By C. N. and A. M. Williamson.

(Methuen and Co. 6s.)—The joint-authors of this book have again followed their peculiar prescription for novel-writing. They take a motor- car, an illustrated guide-book, and a slender thread of fiction, mix them into a whole, and call the finished production a story. In the present instance the motor-car is displaced for half the book by two donkeys and a mule ; but the guide-book remains prominent all through. Readers who prefer to have the powder of Baedeker diluted with the jam of romance will enjoy The Princess Passes, but it must be confessed that it is completely successful neither as a guide-book nor as a novel.