On= NOVEI.S.—Maria Chapdelaine. By Louis Hemon. Translated by W. H.
Blake. (Macmillan. Os. net.)—The success of this English version of M. Hemon's charming and sincere picture of French Canadian life would appear to be a complete vindication of the free translation used at discretion. In escaping from the tyranny of the foreign idiom the reader becomes automatically possessed of the freedom of the French colonial spirit, and can enjoy without hindrance this echo of the quiet but insistent surge of- elemental forces, which is felt only by those who live at the outposts of civilization The Queen of Carmania. By Marie Van Vorst.—(Mills and Boon. 7s. (ld. net.) A romantic; fantastic, but wholly delightful story of a Balkan Queen, who—to cut a long story short— fled her kingdom and married an American engineer. The contrast between the- barbaric state kept- at the tiny Balkan Court and the breezy, democratic• ideals- of Mr. Crossdale, of California, U.S., is bizarre and refreshing.—Certain Persons. By St. John Lucas. (Blackwood. 7s. 6d. net.)—A collection of curiously varied stories and essays, some of which have been published before and none of which appears quite to merit the distinction of republication. " Arethusa," the story of an Italian adventure, has more substance than its companions.
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