12 MAY 1917, page 16

Some Books Of The Week.

laatiee in this coleus don not necessarily preclude subsepteat resiere.1 Shantiniketan : the Bolpur School of Ralthulranath Tagore. By W. W. Pearson. (Macmillan and Co. 4s. 6d.......

Readable Novels.—min Haroun Al-raschid. By Jessie Douglas...

Stoughton. 5s.)—This novel is a little confusing and difficult to follow in its hurry of events, but much may be forgiven for the sake of the vivid picture of Mesopotamia given......

Japanese. Classical Drama •

THE Japanese drama has come to be regarded as a subject chiefly for experts. This is to be - regretted in the interest of the general reader, for though, no doubt, its dramatic......

Fiction.

KRIS-GIRL.* Ix her now story Miss Beatrice Grimshaw has deserted New Guinea, the scene of her most thrilling romances, for a region more in touch with the amenities of......