19 MAY 1906, page 21

Novels.

THE JUNGLE.* THE rapid growth of practical Socialism in the United States has of late engaged the attention of serious publicists, and there is a very general feeling abroad......

Is, If We May Take The Word "prophecy" In The

sense of forth- telling, not of foretelling. She makes her readers understand the West Country and its inhabitants as viewed from the inside and not from the outside,—a feat of......

Books About Egypt.* Professor Breasted Has Succeeded In...

attractive literary shape to his History of Egypt. This has not been easily done. A book dealing with this subject commonly bristles, so to speak, with technical details. The......

The Quincunx Case. By William Dont Pitman. (ward, Look, And

Co. 6s.)—The pseudonym—for pseudonym it surely is— adopted by the author will excite the curiosity of all lovers of Stevenson's unforgettable " Wrong Box." and the test of......