READABLE NOVELS. —The Dark Geraldine. By John Ferguson. (John Lane.
8s. 6d. net.)—A most exciting mystery story presumably founded on hidden treasure, but in the end even an intelligent reader will not be sure what the object was which was hunted for with such breathless adventures all through the book. The whole atmosphere is full of romance, and no one who has once taken up the volume can possibly put it down till he has finished the last page.—Educating Ernestine. By Florence A. Kilpatrick. (Thornton Butterworth. 3s. 6d. net.)—The story of a supposed Australian heiress who in the end, through the means of a newly worked silver mine, becomes really pos- sessed of the riches which have been attributed to her. It is a cheerful little book, just fitted to be read in the summer holi- days.—The Blue Room. By Cosmo Hamilton. (Hurst and Blackett. 8s. 6d. net.)—An American story dealing with the problem of whether a man is bound to reveal his sentimental past to his fiancee. The picture of what may be called country- house life in the United States will be interesting to English readers.—Fanny the Fibber. By Mrs. Horace Tremlett. (Hutchinson. 8s. (3d. net.)—The reader will be left with the uncomfortable feeling that Mrs. Tremlett changed her mind about her heroine in the middle of the story. Fanny in the beginning is as unmitigated a little rascal as can be met with in the pages of fiction, and all that part of the book in which the author describes her exploits with coolly detached irony is excellent reading. The latter half, however, in which Fanny becomes a decorous companion to her grandmother and apparently reforms is much less amusing.
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