24 APRIL 1897, page 13

A Romance Of Wastdaie. By A. E. W. Mason. (elkin

Mathews.)—Mr. Mason mixes into a draught—potent certainly, but as certainly nauseous—the ingredients of a woman's weak- ness, revenge, murder, suicide. It is only fair to say......

Denounced. By J. Bloundelle-burton. (methuen And Co.)—...

tale of the days that followed the '45, is scarcely as good work as we should think the author could have produced. When the author speaks of his own person he uses clumsy......

Green Fire. By Fiona Macleod. (archibald Constable And...

a remarkable, but rather disappointing, book by a writer who has attained high distinction as a leader in that movement in Scottish—though not exclusively Scottish—litera- ture......

Poitet.—bongs From The Golden Gate. By Ina Coolbrith....

and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—This is a volume of really good verse, as good as anything that we have seen of late from poets not of the first or second rank. What the writer wants......