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Confessions Of A Convert.*

FATHER BENSON confesses his religious experience with the literary ease and unreserve which characterize his family. As a boy, he tells us, he thought of God " quite......

Some Books Of The Week.

l Under this heading we notice such Books er as week es hays not bees> , reserred for veriest in other forms.] William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, and Social Reformer. By A.......

Readable Novels. — The House Of Sands. By L. M. Watt. (m.

Secker. 6s.)—Scottish and Barbary piracy in the seventeenth century promises a picturesque and exciting setting; the treatment is not quite convincingly adequate.— An Inn upon......

Fiction.

BELOW STAIRS.* Below Stairs. By Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick. London : Methuen and Co. tea.) IT is interesting to note the variations in the attitude of novelists and dramatists towards......

Pity The Poor Blind. By H. H. Bashford. (constable And

Co. 6s.)—There is distinction in Dr. Bashford's writing and his story; it is the more regrettable that he succumbs to the lure of realism. He draws for us a young East-End......

The Samson Saga, And Its Place In Comparative

By A. Smythe Palmer, D.D. (Isaac Pitman and Sons. 5s. net.)—Dr. Palmer's object is to show that the Scriptural story of Samson is in part composed of a much more ancient......