30 DECEMBER 1916, page 16

Fiction.

XINGU.* Wa confess to approaching the novels and stories of Mrs. Wharton. with mingled emotions, in which a reverent admiration for her ability, her subtlety, and her artistic......

Al Dial Poems And Stories.* Mass Nott Has Produced A

pleasant little volume of animal poems and stories in aid of Funds for wounded horses. The book contains con- tributions by Sir Henry Newbolt and other poets and prose writers,......

A Shakespeare Autograph.•

A FRAGMENT of a play, in Shakespeare's own handwriting, is preserved among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum. Such is the proposi. tion which the-ex-Director sets himself......