27 MAY 1905, page 21

Jorn Dill.*

THE German novels which of late years have made most stir outside Germany have not always redounded to the credit of the Fatherland. It is fortunately otherwise with .1bin Uhl,......

Dorset Dear. By M. E. Francis (mrs. Francis Blundell)....

mans and Co. 6s.)—Seldom has it been the present writer's fate to read so delightful a collection of country idylls as Mrs. Francis Blundell's new volume of short stories,......

Rose Of The World. By Agnes And Egerton Castle. (smith,

Elder, and Co. 6s.)—Instead of their usual airy romances of the eighteenth century, Mr. and Mrs. Egerton Castle have given us in their new novel a curious mental study of modern......

The Taming Of The Brute. By Frances Harrod. (methuen And

Co. 6s.)—Whether Evan Rhys, the " brute " of the title, remained tame, or rather reformed, after his marriage with the charming Cecilie, will remain doubtful in the mind of the......

The Bell And The Arrow. By Mrs. W. H. Chesson

(Nora Hopper). (T. Werner Laurie. 6s.)—In spite of a good many touches of poetry in this book (which, if we are not mistaken, is "Nora Hopper's" first attempt at writing a......