29 JANUARY 1898, Page 13

'Twixt Dawn and Day. By Mrs. A. D. Philps. (R.T.S.)—This

is a story of the Netherlands in the days when Philip H. was seeking to crush the riew reforming spirit. The author introduces it with a somewhat polemical preface, in which, as it seems to us, she hardly strikes the right note. To maintain a truly tolerant and sympathetic temper in writing of these times is about the most difficult of tasks. In part of the story the scene is laid in England.