25 OCTOBER 1902, page 21

Novels.

THE INTRUSIONS OF PEGGY.* Triounn Mr. Anthony Hope has perhaps achieved his most resounding successes in the domain of mock-Royal romance, he has shown on half-a-dozen occasions......

Drewites Dream. By W .l. Alden. (chatto And Windus. 6s.)

—The story of Mr. Alden's work is not only wildly improbable, but badly constructed, and most of the characters are mere lay figures. But as long as Mr. Alden will entertain us......

Old-world Stories Retold.* Of The Many Books In Many Kinds

that come out every autumn as gift-books, none are more useful than those that tell over again the old classical romances of chivalry or fables of antiquity. Among the purveyors......

Donna Diana. By Richard Bagot. (e. Arnold. Os.)—mr. Bagot...

not resisted the temptation, which appears to assail every writer of modern fiction, to give a disagreeable tinge to his story. On the disagreeable qualities with which morbid......