Two Sides of the Face. By A. T. Quiller-Couch. (J.
W. Arrowsmith, Bristol. 6s.)—The first of these eight stories, " Stephen of Steens," has a very strong Cornish flavour indeed. The hero has been ousted from the property held by many generations of his ancestors to make way for an interloper, his father's low-born wife ; and he resists, defying the law, and the countryside help him in his resistance. A more spirited tale it would not be easy to find. Still, we think that it would have been the better without the savagery at the end. Mr. Quiller- Couch likes startling effects, and, as every one knows, has the secret of producing them when he pleases. Some of them are not, we must own, to our taste. We are proportionately obliged to him when he sees fit, as in the " Collaborators," to relax. He knows how to give the humorous as well as the terrible.
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