Ben Cramer, Working Jeweller. By Stella Austin. (Wells Gardner, Darton,
and Co. 2s.)—Miss Stella Austin is always readable, but she seems to presume a little upon this faculty. A more loosely put together story we have seldom seen. It is not difficult to reach the end, in fact the way is never tedious, but we cannot help feeling that it is by a roundabout route that we have come. There is the customary " recognition " by way of a surprise at the end, but it has done duty many times before. —From the same publishers we have Sylvia's Romance (1s.), by Marion Andrews, a sufficiently pleasing tale in which the Jacobite conspiracies of 1715 are made to work in with the love affairs of the heroine. The highwayman of the period also plays his part. He gives the occasion for a rescue, and the rescue the occasion for a romance.—On War's Red Tide. By Gordon Stables, M.D., R.N. (Nisbet and Co. 5s.)—We have had a sufficiency of true stories of the war, and are likely, to say the least, to have plenty of romances about it. Dr. Gordon Stables is early in the field, and deservedly favoured as he is by young readers, will doubtless have a welcome. He gives us the customary compounding of love and war, done in that cheery way with which we are familiar.
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