5 JULY 1913, page 36

Fiction.

V.V.'s EYES.* MR. HENRY SYDNOR HARRISON has the unmistakable gift of a storyteller. It is nothing less than a gift. Those who have it from some fairy enchantment of their birth......

The Magazines.

WE deal fully in our leading columns with Lord Cromer's important article in the Nineteenth Century upon " The Capitulations in Egypt."—Of the other articles, perhaps • The......

Tom, Vron.—by E. M. Sneyd Kynnersley. (w. Blackwood And...

6s.)—The author of H. M. I. might reasonably be expected to be discursive when ho writes novels; and he is. But Tom, Vron is not too long, and the vagaries of the author only......

Readable Novels. —a Summer Quadrille. By Mrs. Hugh Fraser...

Hugh Fraser. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—A story of provincial France in the days of the great Cardinal. The fate of the villain is sufficiently horrible to act as an awful warning......

The Common Chord. By Phyllis Bottome. (martin Seeker....

of this book manages cleverly both the scenes in rather Bohemian theatrical circles, and those which aro concerned with the middle-class English family of the name of Prout.......