6 SEPTEMBER 1913, page 24

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this leadin g us talcs such Looks of the week as Sara not Less reserved for review in other forms.] The Franco - Prussian War and its Hidden Causes. By Emile 011ivier.......

Readable Novels.—.tenny. By Roy Horniman. (hurst And...

of a gutter child of astounding refinement, who makes a success on the stage without train- ing, and then is practically adopted by an elderly duke of not irreproachable......

Sunia And Other Stories. By Maud Diver. (w. Blackwood....

these studies of Indian life those which deal with the natives are much more readable and less conventional than the stories in which the characters are Anglo-Indians. "A......

Fiction.

1.11.h MORNING'S W...1R.* Ix one of the most striking chapters of his novel Mr. Montague gives us a fine picture of the editor of a great provincial daily newspaper who refuses......

Chapters At The English Lakes. By The Rev. H. D.

Rawnsley. (James MacLehose and Sons. 5s. net.)—In this most agree- able little volume Canon Rawnsley deals with a variety of subjects. His first chapter is an address delivered......

Collision. By Bridget Maclagan. (duckworth And Co. 6s.)...

an Anglo-Indian novel, treated on rather different lines from those usually taken by Anglo-Indian novelists. In the first place, the modern trick of giving no explanations and......