4 DECEMBER 1909, page 41

Novels.

IT NEVER CAN HAPPEN AGAIN.* MR. WILLIAM DE MORGAN, like Mr. Joseph Conrad, reminds one of the saying of a scientific lecturer (who knew no Greek, but vaguely understood the......

The Blindness Of Dr. Gray. By Canon P. A. Sheehan.

(Longman and Co. 6s.)—This novel is not very artistically constructed. There are parts of it which might be retrenched without loss, and even with advantage. The smuggling of......

The Florentine Frame. By Elizabeth Robins. (john Murray....

in which a mother and daughter are in love with the same mau is never very attractive, and it needs consummate tact in the handling. Miss Robins takes this for the theme of her......

The Magazines.

SIR FRANCIS CHANNING in his paper on "Mr. Gladstone and the Crisis of 1909 " in the Nineteenth Century is chiefly concerned to prove that "the general principles of the......