10 JUNE 1905, page 23

The Magazines.

Mn. WILFRID WARD'S elaborate and ingenious apologia for Mr. Balfour's attitude in the Fiscal controversy, which heads the contents of the June Nineteenth Century, and is......

Patricia : A Mother. By "iota." (hutchinson And Co. Os.)—

The plot of this story is decidedly ingenious, so far, that is, as concerns the iniquitous will of the widowed heroine's first husband. The struggle, also, which Patricia makes......

A Woman And Her Talent. By Louise Jordan Miln. (w.

Black.. wood and Sons. 6s.)—There have been signs for some time past that a reaction was on its way from the "forward" movement of women to the old-fashioned theory that it is......

The Flute Of Pan.*

WHEN it is explained that the scene of" John Oliver Hobbes's " new romance is chiefly laid in a country named Siguria, that , the heroine is the hereditary Princess of that......