After The Lapse Of A Century, Our Attention Is Again
drawn to the subject with which Mr. Francis Abell deals in his interesting record of Prisoners of War in Britain, 1756 to 1815 (Humphrey Milford, 15e. net). This book is full of......
Fiction.
ALADORE.* MR. NEWBOLT'S new romance is rather hard to describe with- out quoting the lines which serve as a preface :— "In every land thy feet may tread Time like a veil is......
Mrs. Martin's Man. By St. John G. Brake. (maunsel And
Co. 6a)—This novel is apparently Mr. Ervine's first excursion into fiction, and the book, as a whole, goes to prove how excellent a school for the novelist is the drama. The......
Very Few Players Of Auction Bridge In This Country Have
as yet adopted the American call of "nullos," in which the declarer aims not at winning but at losing tricks, as if he were playing for " misere " in solo whist. Those who would......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Noticd in this column does not ttecetear;ly preclude subsequent vesicle.] The publishers of the Quarterly Review announce that, in order to keep better apace with the rapidity......
The Oa Conquest Of The World, By F. A. Talbot
(W. Heine- mann, 6s. net), describes the numerous uses to which petroleum and its derivatives have been put since oil was first "struck" in Pennsylvania in 1859 by Colonel......
Sentimental Than Is Usual With Such Stories.—kerns By...
(W. Heinemann. 6s.)---This book has the merit of an unusual ending, but it is unnecessarily mild and uneventful, lacking in plot and in emotion.—Lockett's Lea. By Sibell......
The Latest Development Of The Amazing Theory That Shake-...
did not write his own plays is to be found in Shakspere and Sir Walter Ralegh, by the late Henry Pemberton, jun. (J. B. Lippincott Co.), which argues that Ralegh is "the only......
The House In The Downs. By H. B. Marriott Watson.
(J. M. Dent and Sons. 6s.)—For the writing of a story of love and adventure in the Napoleonic days, when your Sussex coast was thronged with free-traders and Government spies......
Dr. H. X. Kellen, Of The University Of Wisconsin, Has
published an able study of William James and Henri Bergson (Cambridge University Press, for the University of Chicago Press, 6s. net), in which he points out that these two......
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