22 APRIL 1916, page 18

In Slums And Society.*

Ca . sorr ADDERLEY has hardly, till now, accustomed us to his ecclesiastical title, but after the appearance of In Slums and Society there can be no further difficulty on this......

The Bent Twig. By Dorothy Canfield. (constable And Co.

We cannot praise too highly the careful and ingenious energy which /Ilse Canfield brings to her writing. This novel is exceedingly long, yet every paragraph is honestly dealt......

The Tropics. By C. R. Enock. (grant Richards. 16s. Net.)—mr.

Enock does not tell us here how many tropical countries he has visited himself, but we know from former writings that ho has first-he.n.1 knowledge, at any rate, of South......

Some Books Of The • Week.

[Nottee in this column due )10: neezestrili pretclab eu5sairmal rericel The Second Report of the War Victims' Relief Committee of the Society of Friends (Spottiswoode and Co.)......

Fiction.

A CA1HEDRAL SINGER.* WE owe so much to Mr. James Lane Allen for his Kentucky studies, and for the idealism and poetical insight of his work in general, that it is an ungrateful......

Readabli: Novel9.—the Devil Doctor. By Sax Rohmer....

624—Further adventures in which the mysterious Dr. Fu- Manchu is the villain of the piece.—The Web of Frdulein. By Katha- rine Tynan. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—Not a spy......