6 NOVEMBER 1915, page 34

The Magazines.

THE crisis in the Balkans is treated from wholly different points of view in two articles in the new Nineteenth Century. Dr. Niko ? 2upani6, writing on the strategical......

Fiction.

THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS.• THE genesis of this spirited and ingenious story is told in a brief dedicatory epistle. Mr. Buchan confesses to having long shared with the soldier......

The Bottle-fillers. By Edward Noble. (william Heine-...

chapters to The Bottle-Fillers, where Denis O'Hagan, master of the steamship Sphinx,' loses his boat in a storm, and subsequently his certificate, are as fine as any in the book......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Now in this column does not necessarity 2 , reclucto subsequent review:1 then went to Gutach, in the Schwarzwald, and afterwards to Wertheim, where she remained till the......

Rea.nannam Novnls.—two Who Declined. By Herbert Tremaine,...

Co. 6s.)—A well-written but somewhat disconnected novel, much of which is a satire on the anti-vivisection controversy.—A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari. By Fred, C. Cornell.......