The Templars. By E. H. Lacon Watson. (Edward Arnold. 6s.)—Charley
Templar, who is an undergraduate of St. Michael's College, Cambridge, brings home with him a friend, Thurketyl by name. They are friends per eontraria. Templar has not much vigour of mind or body; Thurketyl is, intellectually and physically, a giant. Charley has a sister Ruth. Thus Mr. Lacon Watson furnishes himself with the materials for a novel, and makes a pretty piece of work out of them. The figure of Thurketyl is one that would do credit to any literary artist. It would do much to recommend a novel if it stood alone. As a matter of fact, it is the centre of a very well drawn group, every member of which is made just as prominent as, and no more than, is fitting. We think the burning of the will is a little clumsy. Perhaps it would have been better to have had it unsigned, or somehow fatally defective in form. But Mr. Lawn Watson's force as a novelist does not lie in this direction. In study of character—not of the life-problem sort, it must be understood—he is not easily to be surpassed.
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