15 DECEMBER 1900, page 20

Novels Of The Week.*

IT is pleasant to find that Miss Rhoda Broughton retains her vigour and incisiveness of expression. It is a matter for regret that she cannot find it in her heart to portray......

Wonder Stories From Berodotus. With Designs By H. G Ran _...

(Harper and Brothers. 7s. 6d.)—This is quite a sumptuous book, with handsome page and artistically designed illustrations. The stories told are—Arlon and the Dolphin, almost the......

C Ure,ent Literature.

Worldly Ways and Byways. By Eliot Gregory (" An Idler "). (J. Lane. 6s.)—This is a collection of racy little essays of vary- ing merit upon many aspects of social life in the......

'twixt Town And Country : A Book On Suburban Gardening.

By Roma White. (Harper and Brothers. 68.)—" A. small back- garden, within the limits or upon the borders of a town, should, I think, be chiefly a cloister; for thought, for......

The Flora Of The Sacred Nativity. By Alfred E. P.

Raymond Dowling, (Began Paul, Trench, and Co. 10s. 6d.)— This is a book full of profoundly interesting suggestion as well as much curious and fascinating antiquarian......