22 MAY 1909, page 23

Novels •

DAPHNE.* 'Tron ethical element has always been more or less prominent ;in Mrs. Humplwy Ward's stories, but she has never so frankly or undisguisediy committed herself to the......

When A Woman Woos. By Charles Marriott. (eveleigh Nash....

Charles Marriott has written a novel which would be more edifying did he not take a standpoint in regard to matrimony which we have never countenanced in these columns. From his......

The Iron Game. By Frances Marsh. (a.. C. Fifield. Es.) — In

spite of the fact that this book is written with considerable stiff- ness, and that the characters are so magnificently aristocratic that the reader sometimes longs for the......

Rsadablz Novar.s.—the Last Persecution. By S. N....

6s.)—A terrifying story of thirty or forty years hence. It shows England under the yoke of China. A Christian persecution, mediaeval in its details, is the chief subject of the......