21 MARCH 1914, page 23

Fiction.

THP EIGHT OF DLIMONDS.• ADMIRERS of Little Lady Mary and Peter Steele the Cricketer, to mention only two of Mr. Horace Hutchinson's excursions into the field of fiction, will......

Seaborne Of The Bonnet Shop. By R K. Weekea. (herbert

Jenkins. Gs.)—The main theme of this novel is the account of a young gentleman of the smart world who starts the business of a fashionable milliner. The story is cleverly......

The Marriage Of Cecilia. By Mande Leeson. (t. ..fieher...

6s.)—Mies Maude Leeson shows in her first novel that she has the root of the matter in her. There are certain faults of construction in the story, but the author contrives to......

Kipling's "they."—st Rose Of Old Quebec. By Anne...

(J. B. Lippincott. Company. Is. net.)—The romance of a girl who loved Lord Nelson; it is hampered by the writer's style, which is stilted and uncom- fortable.—Lady Sylvia's......

Prisons And Prisoners.*

LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON'S Prisons and Prisoners has all , the charm and interest which arise when any person with' sincerity of mind and innocence ofheart tries to give a direct......

The Tracy Tubbses. By Jeasis Pope. (mills And Boon. 3s.

6d.)—This little book, which, it may be said at once, is con- structed on purely farcical lines, contains an account of the astounding adventures which happen to a young married......