1 MARCH 1902, Page 22

The Yellow Fiend. By Mrs. Alexander. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—This

is a very grim and uncomfortable book. The "Yellow

Fiend" is the gold that warps more than one character in the story. The miser is well done, and there is originality in the conception of his clever granddaughter with the sharp temper. But the man who so quietly contemplates bigamy, and the model wife at home who never suspects, even at the end, what a scoundrel her husband has been, do not strike us as probable people.