29 MAY 1915, page 22

Fiction.

MISS BILLY'S DECISION! THE British novel-reading public ought to be, and we trust is, duly grateful for the variety of the entertainment provided by American novelists. When......

Allward. By E. S. Stevens. (mills And Boon. 6e.)—it Was

really surprising how easily Richard Lyddon took to the ways of a " traveller's " life. With all respect for the doctrine of freedom from conventions and all delight in damp......

The Man Of Iron. By Richard Deban. (william Heine- Mann.

6s.)--" Richard Dehan " in the preface to her latest book makes apology for her choice of subject. "The Germany of 1870," she says, "was not the Germany of 1915. . . . The plan......

The Record Of Nicholas Preydon. (constable And Co. 6a.)

— By the time we had reached the end of the second part of Nicholas Freydon's "record," and had followed with mild interest the account of his childhood in England and his......

Reminiscences And Letters Of Sir Robert Ball!

Six ROBERT Bum was so brilliant and lucid a "popularizer" of astronomical science that the public at large were perhaps inclined to overlook the abstruse researches which......