Some Books Of The Week.
['Under this heading we notice such Books of the meek as have not bun reserved for review in other forms.] . The .Life of Hector Berlios : as Written by himself in his Letters-......
Which, It Must Be Said, Affords A Certain Relief After
the problems dealt with above. At the same time, Mr. Capes must have due credit for having taken as much pains with his character- drawing as if lie had no plot to fall back......
The Beryl Stones. By Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick. (e. Arnold. 6s.)
—It is not often that a reviewer is sorry to finish a book. The Beryl Stones has given the writer of this notice that uncommon experience. It will not spoil the story to say......
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Par/iamentary England. By Edward Jenks, MA. (T. Fisher Unwin. 5s.)—If Mr. Jenks had curbed his rhetoric, he would have Made this a better book. His real subject is of legs......
In Samuel Pepys, Lotter Of Musique (smith, Elder, And Co.,
5s.), Sir Frederick Bridge has expanded the three lectures given by him early this year at the Royal Institution into a very pleasant little volume. The numerous references to......
Century, An Excellent Place For A Tale Of Adventure, For
if the interests concerned in the history of the time were not of the largest kind, the personal element was present in large measure. The picturesque adventurer was never more......
Leonora. By Arnold Bennett. (chatto And Windus. Tts.)—...
something so offensive about the clandestine love affairs of a woman of forty with grown-up daughters that it is difficult to read certain parts of Mr. Arnold Bennett's novel......
A .book Of Country Houses. By Ernest Newton. (b. T.
Botsford. 21s. net.)—Mr. Newton gives us here elevations and, plans of nineteen country houses which have been actually erected by himself. We can see what the house would look......
The Bird Book'. By A. J. R. Roberts. (john Lane.
3s.)— This volume is one , of "The Country Handbooks," and its subject is of universal interest. Few people are without some love for birds, and Mr. Roberts's excellent little......
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