24 JULY 1909, page 21

The Edinburgh Review.

Tau concluding article in the July number of the Edinburgh Review is an emphatic condemnation of the Budget, all the more forcible because the writer goes far in his general......

Joan Of The Hills. By T. B. Clegg. (john Lane.

6s.)—The plot is of an ordinary kind,—a marriage made in haste and repented of at leisure. And the hero is not heroic; courage and, we may say, honour fail him when the need is......

A Restoration Of The Mausoleum Of Halicarnassus. By J. J.

Stevenson. (B. T. Batsford. 23. 61.)—Several attempts have been made at restoring the mausoleum. Most of these have naturally not gone further than the hands of the draughtsman.......

Readable Novels. —the Conversion Of Con Cregan, And Other...

Dorothea Conyers. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)— Thirteen stories of unequal merit. Where the horse comes in the story is pretty sure to be good; but the best of all is "What the Red......

Studies In Wives. By Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. (w. Heinemann....

wives of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes's collection are, generally speaking, an extraordinarily unpleasant set, and the episodes which she chooses to relate are extremely disagreeable.......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Undor this hooding we such Books of the week as have not bens reserved for review in other forms.] Hellenic(' Oryrhynchia cum Theopompi et Cratippi Fragmentie. Recognoverunt......

Mysore And Coorg, From The Inscriptions. By B. Lewis Rice.

(A. Constable and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—We all know how Greek and Roman history has been supplemented and made exact by the study of inscriptions. Here work of the same kind has......