26 OCTOBER 1912, page 29

The Quarterlies.

THE Edinburgh Review contains an article upon "The Problem of Persia," by Mr. Levet Fraser, who argues with much weight in favour of Sir Edward Grey's policy and the......

The Value Of Prize Competitions In Art Is A Highly

debatable question. In the province of architecture the practice is widely prevalent, but the present writer is wholly unfit to pronounce an opinion on the results. In music the......

One Crowded Hour. By Sydney C. Grier. (william Blackwood And

Sons. 43s.)—The real hero of this novel is undoubtedly Garibaldi, though a very disagreeable person called Captain Geoffrey Carrick nominally fills that sae. But the interest of......

Cotton Is King. By Gladys Murdoch. (sands And Co. 6s.)—

'Neither the title nor the first chapter, a melodramatic account of a selfish man ruining himself at Ascot, should deter readers from finding the better stuff which follows in......

Reenasas Novere.—the Blue Wall. By Richard Washburn...

Co. 6s.)—A modern American story which deals chiefly with the influence of mind over matter.— Bachelors' Buttons. By Edward Burke. (Herbert Jenkins. 6s.) —A rather attractive......