5 DECEMBER 1908, page 42

The Magazines.

THE new Nineteenth Century is strong in articles of topical interest. That of Mr. J. L. Bashford on the Berlin crisis, however, cannot be said to be either convincing or......

Novels.

"THE RIGHT STUFF." • %BOMB time ago we saw it argued with great skill and evident sincerity by a modern novelist in the pages of a leading review that it was most unjust to find......

A Prince Of Dreamers. By Flora A. Steel. (w. Heinemann.

6s.) —The "prince of dreamers" of Mrs. Steel's title is the great Akbar, Mogul Emperor of India, whose Court and time are depicted for us in this novel with considerable......

The Old Wives' Tale. By Arnold Bennett. (chapman And Hall.

6s.)—Mr. Arnold Bennett takes as the subject of his new novel the separate histories of two sisters, who in the first chapters of the book are in their later teens, while the......