17 FEBRUARY 1906, page 23

Novels.

SCHOLAR'S DAUGHTER.* NOVEL-READERS cannot always be expected to be in the mood for books of a depressing, disquieting, or edifying tendency, looks that "give furiously to......

Recent Verse.*

Mn. ANDREW LANG is most welcome when—all too rarely— he forsakes the role of the historian and anthropologist for that more cheerful domain where his first triumphs were won.......

The Drakestone. By Oliver Onions. (hurst And Blaokett....

is not often that the reviewer of fiction finds real enjoy- ment in the task of reading the novels on which judgment has to be passed. Hr. Oliver Onions's new book,. - however,......