11 JULY 1903, page 21

Submarine Navigation.*

IT, is nearly three centuries since the first submarine boat was constructed by a Dutchman, one Cornelius Drebbel, " the wonder-man of Alkmaar," who displayed its remarkable......

Novels.

STRANGERS IN THE LAND.* Tat transitional character of the modern novel is occasionally marked by the emergence of a book in which old conventions • Strangersix the land. By......

The Undersong. By H. C. Macilwaine. (a. Constable And Co.

6s.)—This, except for the last two sketches, is a book of Australian stories which give a very lifelike picture of the country in which the scene is laid. To the ordinary reader......