Basque People. By Dorothy Canfield. (cape. 7s. 6d.)— This...
of short stories is pleasingly written and records some faithful and entertaining impressions of the Basque character and mode of life. The story, " Gold from Argentina," rings......
Current Literature
Ma. A. L. MAYCOCK, who dates his preface from Cambridge, discourses with evident enthusiasm about the sister University in An Oxford Note-Book (Blackwood, 10s. 6d.), which is......
Fiction
A New Book by Miss Charlotte Brontë IN the bottom right-hand corner of a show-cabinet in the British Museum, amongst many august manuscripts, is a tiny booklet written on pages......
Squall Among The Lochs. By J. Strang Morrison....
6d.)—Seasoned with a touch of romance and an Italian " villain," this lively story of a treasure- hunt is most exciting when involving a small yacht in the dangers and thrills......
Andrew Lang Has Recorded How Once When He Was Fishing
in the Inverness-shire Beauly his old gillie observed, " My name is Campbell, but my heart is with the Great Montrose," and despite Ayton's " grim Geneva ministers " and their......
Ruskin's Mind, With Its Versatile Interest In Art,...
and religion, was full of superficial inconsistencies. One has only to read his essay on War to realize the muddled thinking of which he was sometimes capable. Vet, beneath all......
New Novels
RUMOUR AT NIGHTFALL. By Graham Greene. (Heine- mann. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Greene is one of those authors who have something to say but whose turgidity prevents them from saying it. The......
The Long Day's Task. By Sybil Campbell Lethbridge. ....
7s. 6d.)—A land-owner loses money, threatens to sell his " place," and discovers that his wife loves it more than she does hiin. A familiar situation unconvincingly tidied up by......
" A Gray Cloth Mantle With A Golden Fringe," Said
James VI of Fife, and it is that golden fringe—of (amongst many other historic spots) Culross, Aberdour, Dysart, Largo (where was born Robinson Crusoe's prototype), of the......
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