The Captain's Toll - Gate. By Frank R. Stockton. (cassell...
6s.)—" He had not the heart to make his stories end unhappily," says Mrs. Stockton of her husband. It is an admirable trait, and we wish—art or no art—that it were more common......
The Twins Of Skirlaugh Hall. By Emma Brooke. (hurst And
Blackett. 6s.)—It is very seldom that the flesh of the hardened reviewer can be made to creep, but The Twins of Skirlaugh Hall is so eerie a story that, in one instance at any......
The Relentless City. By E. F. Benson. (w. Heinemann. 6s.)
—Mr. Benson is extremely fond of holding up a :mirror to modern society, and bidding it look at its own frightfulness. In this novel ho has carried his reflector over the......
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IMPERIAL FISCAL REFORM. Imperial Fiscal Reform. By Sir Vincent H. P. Caillard. (E.. Arnold. 3s. 6d.)—In the preface to this book (which is well written and is couched in......
The Enthusiast. By Adeline Sergeant. (methuen And Co....
Sergeant's hero cannot quite make up his mind whether to be loyal to his fiancée, who shows him pretty plainly that sha prefers being the Principal of a Ladies' College to being......
The Pool In The Desert. By Sara Jeannette Duncan. (methuen.
and Co. 6s.)—It is difficult to make up one's mind which of the stories in Mrs. Cotes's new book 35 the most uncomfortable and painful. In the story which gives its name to the......
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