BOOKS.
THIS WEEK'S BOOKS.
PUBLIBRERS have not given us anything remarkable this week, but for- a change the books of " pure literature " are the most interesting. Four novels stand out above the rest —The Black- Souls by' Liam O'Flaherty (Cape) ; Race, by William McFee (Seeker) ; Wandering Stars, by Clemence Dane (Heinemann), and Miss Linn, by Douglas Goldring (Chapman and. Hall). In Heliodora (Cape) " H. II." again lets her chaste muse wander through ancient Greece. Mr. Eugene O'Neill prints two of his plays in Beyond the Horizon
(Cape).
The most important of the other books is Dr. F. C. S. Schiller's Problems of Belief (Hodder and Stoughton), for Pragmatism makes a very good bolster for belief if it is not too hard' pressed. We have received from Messrs. Dulau, some time after its. publication, The Pirates' Who's Who, an exciting compilation by Mr. Philip Gosse. Mr. John Beresford has edited for the Oxford University Press The Diary of a Country Parson ; James Woodforde, the author, was a quiet, undistinguished., eighteenth-century clergyman, and he gives an atmosphere of " intimate homeliness " to all the events he records. We get more stirring and fashionable records of the eighteenth century in Lady Suffolk and Her Circle, by Lewis Melville (Hutchinson).
THE LITERARY EDITOR.
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