13 MARCH 1915, page 22

Fiction.

ENTER AN AMERICAN.* Teen humours of boarding-house life have been exploited at different times by modern novelists, but, to the best of our belief, the most suggestive scenario......

Some Books Of The - Mum [natise In Thie Column Does

not nmeuanly preclude uttaequ e nt ma i na l Though there is now a considerable literature upon place- names, the best works hitherto have dealt with special localities, and......

Readable Nowas.—book Here. By W. Pelt Ridge. (methuen And...

2a net.)--A volume of short stories, lack- ing in Mr. Pelt Ridge's usual brilliancy of charaoterization, but admirable in form and idea—lie Royal Happiness. By Mre, Everard......

Columbine. By Viola Meynell. (martin Seeker. 6s.)—the...

of Miss Meynell's three chapter-headings is occasionally reflected in the book itself; but that is only because the lino between delicacy and affec- tation is such a thin one,......