4 AUGUST 1906, page 25

Novels.

JOSEPH VANCE.* THE novel, as an earlier generation understood it, has almost gone out of existence. The readers who were privileged to live in the days when Dickens and......

Great Bowlers And Fielders.

Great Bowlers and Fielders: their Methods at a Glance. By G. W. Beldam and C. B. Fry. (Macmillan and Co. 21s. met.)— It is with no feeling but respect for cricket and cricketers......

Sermons At Rugby. By The Bishop Of Hereford. (j. Nisbet

and Co. 3s. Cd. net.)—These sermons, preached to public-school boys, contain much to interest the general reader, none the less 'because they are not quite the sermons he would......

The Undying Past. By Hermann Sudermann. (john Lane....

new novel Herr Sudermann shows us how the events of a man's past life pursue him with relentless persistence, and implies the dreary doctrine that it is quite impossible for a......

Felicity In France. By Constance Elizabeth Maud. (w....

Co. 6s.)—This book is really a guide-book in disguise, being concerned with the travels of two ladies through Brittany and Touraine, and the shorter voyage of one of them in......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we tidies such Books of the week as have not been reserved for roviem in other forms.] Portraits anti Jewels of Mary Stuart. By Andrew Lang. (J. MacLehose......