24 OCTOBER 1908, page 24

Novels.

THE GREAT MISS DRIVER.* MERE industry in a novelist commands little or no respect. It is only justified when it is combined, as in the case of Mr. Hope, with other and higher......

The Peninsular War.*

READERS of Professor Oman's first two volumes have been eagerly expecting a further instalment, and the volume now before us maintains the high standard of its predecessors. The......

Desire. By Una L. Silberrad. (a. Constable And Co. Cs.)—

Miss Silberrad, unlike many authors of the present day, the beginnings of whose novels greatly outshine the end, seems to have some difficulty in starting a story. The opening......

.1 'spirit In Prison. By Robert Hichens. (hutchinson And Co.

6s.) — .A Spirit in Prison is a sequel to Mr. Hichens's former novel, "The Call of the Blood," and would probably be extremely difficult and puzzling reading to any one who did......