14 JUNE 1902, page 22

The Story Of Cairo.*

IN the series of "Mediaeval Towns" published by Messrs., J. M. Dent and Co., Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole, who has an hereditary title to be accepted as an authority on Egyptian_......

Novels.

MARTA.* Tax choice of Spain as the scene of a modern romantic novel is natural enough, since there is more of the "patient deep disdain" of modernity in the Peninsula than in......

Love's Mirage. By Daisy Hugh Pryce. (greening And Co....

Pryce is not so readable on the Nile as she is in the harem of "The Pasha" at Constantinople. Still, there is such a fascination about that ancient river that the baldest......

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6s.)—Mrs. Glasgow in her new novel follows her previous plan of introducing us to hero and heroine during their childhood. This time, however, the beginning of the book does not......

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