1 JANUARY 1916, page 32

Fiction.

DAVENPORT.t nos he emerged from a brief phase of literary discipleship, Mn Marriott has steadily advanced in his craft and earned • Sirglialt Coast Detentes. By George Clinch.......

War From A Quaker Point Of View. By J. W.

Graham. (Headley Bros. Is. 6d. net.)—The views of honest Quakers command the respect of all Christians, and there are moments when one almost envies their sublime conviction......

Resnesrm Novell—pootli. By Ardeshir F. J. Chinoy, B.a.,...

(Mrs.) Dinbai A. F. Chinoy. (T. Werner Laurie. 6s.)—The authors of this novel may have a most accurate knowledge of life in Bombay, but they certainly cannot write good......

Upsidonia. By Archibald Marshall. (stanley Paul And Co....

latest book would make a delightful short story ; or it might well serve as the foundation for a more complicated fantasy. But in forcing it to the fashion of a six- shilling......

The Christmas Number Of Khaki (1s.) Contains Many Good...

Mr. Graham Horton-Smith, one of the founders of the Imperial Maritime League, in " The Refiner's Fire " deals with some correspondence he has had with a pacificist, and states......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Just as a study of astronomy emphasizes the smallness of man as nothing else can, so, if any one feels......

The Kaleidoscope. By The Hon. Mrs. Dowdall. (duckworth...

6s.)—This is, we believe, Mrs. Dowdall's first attempt at fiction-writing. She has many of the qualities of a good novelist ; she can manage a fully crowded stage, and yet not......