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Gripped. By Silas K. Hocking. (f. Warne And Co. 3s.

6d.)— Mr. Hocking would have done well in refreshing his recollections of the " Crito" before he made his hero commit the crime of breaking prison. Socrates held that a good......

Novels.

THE WATCHER BY THE THRESIIOLD.* THESE " tales of the seen and the unseen," most, if not all, of which have appeared in the pages of Blackwood's Ilfagezine, where they attracted......

The One Before. By Barry Pain. (grant Richards. 35. Id.)—

There are cases in which vulgarity is merely a synonym for realism, and it must be said at once that The One Before is one of these. But though this particular form of realism......

The Way Of Escape. By Graham Travers (margaret Todd, M.d.)

(Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—If we have had our spirits unduly raised by Mr. Barry Pain, we shall be brought down to a properly gloomy level by The Way of Escape. We suppose that......

Journeyman Love. By Maud Stepney Rawson. (hutchinson And...

Rawson lays the scene of her story in Paris in the last days of Louis Philippe, and a very richly painted scene it is. Literature, art, music—Mrs. Rawson is very great on music......