26 JANUARY 1918, page 22

Fiction.

THE OILSKIN PACKET.• WE have to thank Messrs. Reginald Berkeley and James Dixon for proving in their excellent and exciting yarn that the last word has not been said on the......

Readable Novels. —the Wonder Mist. By Henry Bruce. (john...

6s.)—The most interesting part of this novel is con- cerned with the psychology of the Eurasian heroine, and the series of chapters, the first of which is called " A Hindu......

Originality.*

THE publisher's note on the cover of Mr. Sharnol's book informs us that it is " a practical and highly interesting guide to those mental conditions that promote original......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this c,lunan d.es not necessarily preclude subuquent review.] The Edinburgh Review.—The new Bishop of Hereford opens the January number of the Edinburgh Review with a......

Sketches In Verse. By M. O. Strachey. With A Foreword

by Frederic Harrison. Illustrated. (Oxford : B. H. Blackwell. 3s. net.) All who love Italy, and who feel starved by their inability to see with their natural eyes Tivoli or......