31 OCTOBER 1903, Page 26

The Responsibilities of the Novelist. By Frank Norris. (Grant Richards.

6s.)—Mr. Norris takes the American point of view, and what he says has, accordingly, to be occasionally modified by the English reader. Nevertheless, this same reader, if he has written, or proposes to write, a novel—and how great a multitude are .these two classes combined—will find it useful.