13 MAY 1905, page 21

Croker, The Famous Tammany "boss," Gives, In Somewhat...

language, an extremely vivid picture of municipal politics in New York at a time which from descriptions of incidents in the book and by the illustrations we should judge......

Admirers Of The Industry Exhibited By Mr. Lang In The

two previous volumes of his history of Scotland will be somewhat disappointed with their successor. Not that it also does not exhibit, in innumerable notes and references, marks......

The Rose Of Life. By M. E. Braddon. (hutchinson And

Co. 6s.)—Miss Braddon must be congratulated on having described a real human being in her new novel. Daniel Lester, the poet, to whom the reader is introduced in the very first......

Novels.

THE REAPER.* A COUPLE of years ago we had occasion to notice in this column a striking story of Louisiana, Out of the Cypress Swamp. With that ubiquitousness which is......