10 APRIL 1909, page 26

Novels.

THE NEW JUNE.* AN historical novel from the pen of Mr. Newbolt is a thing to be welcomed with more confidence than is inspired by the great majority of these ventures, and for......

Readablii Novelb.—the Prince's Pranks. By Charles Lowe....

taste which presents an illustrious living Personage as a character ii a book may be doubted, but Mr. L owe's account of what happened at Queen Victoria's first Jubilee is at......

Bromine. By John Ayscough. (j. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol....

writing is always interesting, but in the present book he really has given us too many Kings without kingdoms among his characters. The reader is irresistibly reminded of a......

The Magazines.

Tian Nineteenth Century leads off with a long and very able article on "The Naval Situation" by Sir William White. Put in the briefest compass, Sir William White's argument......

Our Adversary. By M. E. Braddon. (hutchinson And Co. Gs.)

--The reader will not be able to resist the idea that in beginning to write her novel Miss Braddon intended to give her readers a hint that his Satanic Majesty was embodied in......