7 DECEMBER 1912, page 44

The Chequer Board. By Sybil Grant. (hodder And Stoughton....

Sybil Grant's book of short stories contains some extremely clever work, and if it is written from a rather cynical point of view no one can say that this is not the fashion.......

Erica. By Mrs. Henry De In Pasture (lady Clifford). (smith,

Elder and Co. 6s.)—The difference between the Victorian novel in three volumes and the modern six-shilling story is that when an author wishes to write a long book it has to be......

The Magazines.

Two articles in the Nineteenth Century deal with the outlook in the Near East. The first, by Mr. Marmaduke Pickthall, the author of that remarkable novel Said the Fisherman, is......

Fiction.

PIKE AND CABKONADE, * Melon MACMUNN belongs to that class of soldiers who have not only moved in the mid-current of action, but are also fortunately possessed of the gift of......