10 MARCH 1906, page 26

C Urrent Literature.

BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. Notes on the Life History of the British Flowering Plants. By the Right Hon. Lord Avebury, P.C. (Macmillan and Co. 15s.) —Lord Avebury has given the......

In The Rands Of The Czar. By Garrett Mill. (w.

Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—It is more than a little difficult to accept the Czar of All the Russias as the hero of a modern novel. Although the date of the book is in the future,......

The Sea Maid. By Ronald Macdonald. (methuen And Co. 6s.)

—In The Sea Maid the reader must prepare himself for a story on lines which may be called credibly fantastic. That is to say, the novel, although it does not deal with everyday......

Novels.

THE BENDING OF A TWIG.* WITHIN the last few years we have had quite a plethora of schoolboy stories, — Godfrey Marten and Maitland Major and Minor, by Mr. Charles Turley ; Mr.......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hays not been reserved for review in other fortes.] " EVERYMAN'S Lisaanv."—We have received some specimens of a new issue......

The Misses Make - Believe. By Mary Stuart Boyd. (chapman...

6s.)—This is a pleasant little story of no great literary merit, but with a certain freshness in the writing which makes the book agreeable. Those very silly young people, Belle......