Crittenden. By John Fox. (A. Constable and Co. 6s.) — Readers of
"The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come" will be in some respects disappointed with Mr. Fox's new book, for the touches of poetry which distinguished his former novel are not nearly so apparent in this one. Nevertheless, the subject is so interesting that the book will be read with a great deal of pleasure. The Spanish-American War, seen through the eyes of a typical Southerner, is a problem full of interest to Americans, and there- fore to their English cousins. Over here we may not quite have appreciated the healing of old wounds which came as the result of the whole nation fighting together for the first time. Mr. Fox, however, dwells much on that issue of the war. The battle scenes in Cuba are a good deal more interesting than the love affairs of the story, for every now and then these latter prove a decided interruption to the action. The events dealt with happened such a short time ago that it would have been better taste on the part of Mr. Fox not to have dwelt on the physical peculiarities of some of the "walking gentlemen" of his little drama. The positions occupied by them make identification so easy that the author might as well have mentioned them by name.
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