19 DECEMBER 1908, page 25

Novels.

HALFWAY HOUSE.* BEGINNING with Mediaeval and Renaissance romance, Mr. Hewlett made a successful excursion into modernity with The Stooping Lady, and has now given us, for the......

The Waters Of Jordan. By Horace Annesley Vacholl. (john...

65.) — It is obvious that if an author wishes to write a novel pointing out the terrible punishment meted out to his hero for committing a sin, it is necessary for him to begin......

Some Eighteenth-century Byways.*

MR. BUCHAN needs no introduction to the readers of the Spectator, who will recognise in this collection of essays and studies not a few papers that first saw the light in our......

The Diva's Ruby. By F. Marion Crawford. (macmillan And. Co.

Os.)—The character of a heroine must be indeed a masterly creation for the reader to wish to follow her through three novels. Mr. Marion Crawford seems to find his present......