6 NOVEMBER 1909, Page 11

For King or Parliantent ? By Samuel Horton. (R. Culley.

38. 6d.)—There is nothing particularly novel about this book. Every year brings us fresh stories about the Civil War, and the complication which makes the Puritan young man fall in love with a Royalist maid, or, it may be, reverses the situation, is not unknown. But For King or Par/iament may be read with pleasure. David Welbarne is a good hero, and Joan Hemsworth an equally good heroine, who -cheats him admirably, for his and, possibly, for the common good.