Joan of Garioch. By Albert Kinross. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—The
love-story in this book and the whole of its sentimental interest are so extremely poor that it would hardly be worthy of notice except for a very curious account of events in Russia beginning in December, 1905. The author, whose autobiographical hero is a special correspondent, gives some vivid descriptions of the revolution among the Letts and the doings of the peasantry throughout the whole region of the Baltic provinces of Courlaml, Livonia, and Esthonia,. The release of the hero by a mysterious stranger from the prison where he lies waiting for death is never completely explained, but otherwise his adventures and escapes are well contrived, and the pictures of the revolutionary leaders, notably that of Arbusoff, cleverly drawn. Fortunately for the reader, the heroine of the lovo-story is not allowed to appear, and it is possible to read the adventurous part of the book and merely glance at the romance. On these conditions the novel may be recom- mended to those who are interested in the Lettish rising, and Russian politics generally,
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