23 JANUARY 1909, page 24

The Lost Cabin Mine. By F. Niven. (john Lane. 6s.)—this

is a story of the Far West, and is full of exciting adventures and of bloodstained combats. The hero is not the man who tells the story, but his companion, known as "the Apache......

The Bias. By Marguerite Curtis. (w. Blackwood And Sons....

is somewhat hard to credit the arrangement come to in the first chapters of this novel as to the education of Cynthia , Jerome, the joint ward of George Street and Ernest......

Readable Novels.—the Miracle. By Antrim Oriel. (a....

6s.)—A novel of politics in the immediate future, written by one who seems to know a good deal, and can certainly draw recognisable portraits. The reader will think him hard on......

The Quarterlies.

Tan able article on " The Value of the Territorial Force " with which this number of the Quarterly begins is scarcely hopeful as regards the success of Mr. Haldane's scheme ;......

Novels.

SEPTIMUS.t • The Origin of the Sense of Beauty: Some Suggestions on the Source 44 Development of the Aesthetic Feelings. By Felix Clay. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. [Oa. net.]......