29 MAY 1909, page 25

Writing The Short-story. By J. Berg Esen Wain, Lit.d....

Noble, and Eldridge, Now York. Gs.)—Mr. Esonwein is editor of Lippincott's Mont hill Magazine, and when he tells us about the "rise, structure, writing, and sale of the modern......

Rzananan Novara—rose Of The Wilderness. By S. R....

and Stoughton. fis.)—A Galloway story, and as good as Mr. Crockett always makes his stories when his foot is on his native heath.—Priscilla of the Good Intent.' By lIalliwell......

Steinburne : A Lecture. By J. W. Mackail. (the Clarendon

Press, ls. net.)—Swinburne, Matthew Arnold, and William Morris have helped to make the list of Oxford poets some- what more worthy of the University, and Professor Mackail has......

Literary By - Paths In Old England. By Henry C. Shelley....

Richards 103. fid. net.)—The men of letters of whom Mr. Shelley writes—he comes, we gather, from America—are Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, William Penn, Thomas Gray, Gilbert......

The 'half Moon.' By Ford Madox Hueffer. (eveleigh Nash....

Hueffer has contrived to transfer some of the charm which lives in the steep old streets of the town of Rye to the pages of his novel. The opening of the story is delightful,......

Some Books Of The Week.

ttrndor ate healing too motto. ottoh Books of IN week es have not been reserved fur misty in other forms.) A New Way of Life. By J. St. Lee Strachey. (Macmillan and Co. ls.......

In The Grip Of The Trusts. 13y J. C. Haig.

(Methuen and Co. ls. net.)—In this "Story of 1914" we get a vivid picture of affairs in England as they will be after some years of a Tariff Reform Government. There is a......

Johnny Gibb Of Gushetneult In The Parish Of Pyketiilins. By

William Alexander, LL.D. (David Douglas, Edinburgh. 2s. not.) —This is a story of local Scottish life about the time of the Disruption. Mr. A. Mackie, who prefaces it with an......