21 FEBRUARY 1914, page 27

Fiction.

GRANNIE FOE GRANTED.* LAEIT week we noticed a novel in which the hero was a boy of thirteen. In Mrs. George Wemyss's new book the beau 2-die is assigned to a lady who mast be......

The Sorrow Stones, By Maud E. Williams. (longmans And Co.

6s.)—If this is, as we imagine, Miss Williams's first novel, she is to be congratulated- We took it up expecting to find the usual small-talk, voluble and striving after......

Readable Novel8.—t1;e Paupers Of Portman Square. By L A. R.

Wylie. (Cassell and Co. 6s.)—Seldom have we met people so amazingly unlike real men and women as the husband and wife and the chorus girl who figure in Mies Wylie's pleasant but......

Hagar. By Mary Johnston. (constable And Co. 6s.)— There Is

a tendency among writers of the present day to indulge in over-detailed portraiture; here lies the mistake of Mien Johnston's work, for she is careful to leave no mystery of......

Sarah Eden. By E. S. Stevens. (mills And Boon. 6s.)—.

Sarah Eden was an interesting woman she began life in a Devonshire farmhouse, where she was influenced but not " converted " by a Revivalist Mission, and stirred to thought by......