23 OCTOBER 1909, page 22

Novels.

TRUE TILDA.* True Tilda is a very delightful and genial book, and the best tribute that we can pay to its many merits is to say that it suffers from its brevity. The promise of......

The Household Cavalry.* These Two Sumptuous Quarto...

beautiful reproductions of historical portraits and sketches, in addition to many admirable maps and plans, are worthy in every way of the Household Cavalry, whose splendid......

Ten Great And Good Men.* Tars Book Naturally Reminds Us

of Dean Burgon's Twelve Good Men. It differs somewhat in plan. It contains sketches, not biographies. But the idea is the same,—to give the reader in the course of a few pages......

The Face - Op China:t The Multiplying Of Books About 'china

is itself a sign of change in the most unchanging Of all countries. Miss Kemp's book would certainly not 'have been written a quarter of a century ago. Tart of it dates, it is......