21 AUGUST 1897, Page 25

A Galahad of the Creeks, and other Stories. "y S.

Levett-Yeats. (Longmans and Co.)—These are stories of the seamy side of life in India. The picture is given with no little force of colouring, and the aim of the artist is to be commended; but we must own to a doubt whether it was worth drawing. The last scene in the "Widow Lansport " is distinctly the most effective in the book.