30 MAY 1908, Page 23

READABLE NOVELS.—My Son and I. By Mrs. M. H. Spielmann.

(George Allen and Sons. 6s.)—An account of the upbringing of an only son by a young widow. It is prettily written, but it is provoking for the reader to be left with the same situation, only in inverse circumstances, at the end.—The Forefront of the Battle. By Andrew Loring. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)—A tragic story of modern life, something in the Disraeli manner. —The Lady Mary of Tavistock. By Harold Vallings. (J. Milne. as.)—A tale of Devonshire life in the seventeenth century.— The Fate of Faits. By A. M. I. Wordier. (S. W. Partridge and Co. 5s.)—A picture, sufficiently well drawn, of Russian life in the present day.