6 AUGUST 1904, Page 23

A Bachelor in Arcady. By Halliwell Sutcliffe. (T. Fisher Unwin.

6s.)—The" Bachelor in Arcady" is of the school of " Eliza- beth and her German Garden," and this school is by no means so appropriate to the male point of view as to the female. The Bachelor attempts to maintain his reader's attention by intro. ducing a mild little love-story to flavour his account of his cabbages and his musings upon things in general. But his hand is unfortunately a little heavy for this kind of literary soufflé, and the book in consequence, though it might have been delightful, just misses deserving that encouraging adjective, and becomes a little dull.