• The Wooing Of Wistaria. By Onoto Watauna. (harper And
Brothers. 6s.)—This is a Japanese novel,—that is, it is a novel about Japanese people, and the scene is laid in Japan. No preface or publishers' note suggests that it is a......
Mrs. Wiggs Of The Cabbage Patch. By Alice Caldwell Hegan.
(Hodder and Stoughton. 5a.)—This is a finely drawn little study of life. Mrs. Wiggs is a Mark Tapley with the farce left out, the farce being quite in its right place where......
Tales By Three Brothers. By Phil Robinson, E. Kay Robinson,
and H. Perry Robinson. (Isbister and Co. 6s.)—These three brothers have given us a decidedly entertaining volume. The stories are of a nature to pass half-an-hour very quickly......
Haunts Of Ancient Peace. By Alfred Austin. (macmillan And...
6s.)--A considerable portion of this book having been contributed to the columns of the Spectator some eight years since, we are pre- cluded from noticing it in the way that we......
The Wine Of Finvarra, And Other Stories. By C. L.
Antrobus. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.)—The stories are of excellent quality. The imaginative power that Miss Antrobus shows in "The Strange Preacher," and the strong simplicity of......
Novels.
THE FOUR FEATHERS.* THE mainspring of Mr. Mason's interesting and exciting story is akin to that of Mr. Conrad's sombre and powerful romance, Lord Jim, and doubtless other......
• A Soul Apart. By Adeline Sergeant. (hurst And Blackett.
6s.)—A Soul Apart is a story suitable for the Roman Catholic young person. It begins and ends in a convent. The writing is pretty, but the plot is exceedingly weak. The heroine......
The Beaufoy Romances. By Hamilton Drummond. (ward, Lock,...
6s.)—These " romances " are excellent reading. "Raimond de Beaufoy, hereditary suzerain of the fief of that name," is a Frenchman, but the reader thinks of him as the aboriginal......
C Iirrent Literat Lire.
MOZART. Mr. Eustace J. Breakspeare, who contributes the volume on Mozart to the "Master Musicians" Series, edited by Mr. F. J. Crowest (J. M. Dent and Co.; 3s. 6d.), has been......
The White Wolf, And Other Fireside Tales. By - Ft Q."
(Methuen and Co. 6s.)—" Q's" idea of a "fireside tale" is not always such as approves itself to our taste. In the story which gives a title to the volume a Norse seaman boards a......
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