Fancy Free. By Eden Phillpotts. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—Under the
title Fancy Free, Mr. Philip t a gives us a collection of clever and amusing jeux d'esprit with a great variety (of motives. The idea of "Quite Out of the Common " is particularly entertaining. Two men who dislike one another make, in a moment of irrita- tion, two bets,—a thousand pounds that Norton Bellamy will for a whole day refuse to act on every bit of advice tendered him by his friends and others, and another thousand pounds that the narrator will on the same day meekly take and act upon every bit of advice given him by his friends. Before one o'clock, botla men find themselves and one another in the hands of the police. " Tarver's Transmigrations " is a humorous practical application of the theories of esoteric Buddhism, and the picture of the tiger in the " Zoo" when Tarver is within him is even better than the description. The ghost that nobody listens to is good also ; and cat-fanciers might do worse than ponder the experiences of ' Shah,' as related in the "Diary of a Perfect Gentleman."
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