22 JANUARY 1910, page 24

A Century Of Empire.t

SIR HERBERT MAXWELL, has undertaken a great task. He is to tell the story of the British Empire in the nineteenth century. The first instalment of the tale is before us, taking......

Us Four. By S. Macnaughtan. (john Murray. 6s.)—the " Four"

whose sayings and doings are recorded in this volume are the author and her sisters. We are at a loss how to class the book ; it is a chronicle rather than a novel; the interest......

Novels.

THE ROSARY.* The Rosary is a decidedly engaging specimen of a class of novel which has of late years been partially submerged by the floods of realism,—the novel of sentiment. A......