24 FEBRUARY 1906, page 24

Madame Geoffrin.*

FOB one reason or another, perhaps the name of Madame Geoffrin is not quite so familiar to the general public as those of her more ornamental contemporaries and leaders of......

Dick Pentr.eath. By Rath: Me Tynan. (smith, Elder, And 'co.

6s.)—This is a rather pretty and innocent little book, though it is difficult to believe that any one could be quite so foolish as Dorothea, the heroine, or so impetuous as......

Novels.

THE GAMBLER.* THE novelist who has suddenly swum into vogue on the strength of an ingenious novel of sensation such as John Chilote, M.P., must always find it hard to satisfy......