13 JULY 1912, page 24

Modern Italy.*

THE success of Mr. Bagot's My Italian Year—a work pub. lished not many months ago—must be gratifying to him, even though it proves that he has under-estimated the interest taken......

Fiction.

ALSO AND PERHAPS.t A CONSIDERATE reviewer has some scruples in putting Sir Frank Swettenham's book under the head of fiction. It is true that Sir Frank Swettenham himself......

The Land Of To - Morrow. By William Westrup. (alston...

a novel this book is not particularly interesting, but as an account of the life of an Englishman in Basutoland it is well worth reading. The author seems to find, as doubtless......

Readable Novnts.—the Queen's Peril. By Mrs. Hugh Fraser...

Fraser. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—This describes four breathless days and nights at the Court of Louis XIII. and Anne of Austria, during which the Queen is abducted and......

The Prayer-book Dictionary.* Tins Is An Age Of...

It is not without reason, therefore, that the editors of the Prayer- Book Dictionary have been encouraged to supply in respect of the Book of Common Prayer, with the aid of......