22 APRIL 1911, page 24

A Century Of Empire.*

SIR HERBERT MAXWELL touches in this volume on things quorum pars fuit. He sat in Parliament for two-thirds of the period of which he writes, and was a member of the Ministry......

Knight Checks Queen. By Mrs. Lockhart Lang. (alston...

this story a coming man of science marries a budding prima donna in order to get her away from an uncongenial home where she is unable to study. Naturally enough the young......

Captain Sentimental. By Edgar Jepson. (mills And Boon....

is a collection of short stories of which the first, which gives its name to the book, is hardly the best. That distinction is reserved for " Marsh Horny," into which the author......

Readable Novels. — The Black Spider. By Carlton Dawe....

Nash. 2s. net.)—The story of an enterprising female burglar who commits an almost incredible error of judgment.— The Leech. By Mrs. Harold E. Gorst. (19i113 and Boon. 6s.)—A......

Novels.

BROTHER COPAS.* THERE were two orders of bedesmen at St. Hospital-by- Merton, Merchester—the Blanchminster Brethren and the Beauchamp Brethren. To be admitted to the former......