The House Under The Sea. By Max Pemberton. (g. Newnes.
6s.)—That a man of indifferent principles should plant himself in an eligibly situated island for purposes of wrecking is intelligible enough. Good stories have been made out of......
Current Literature.
MINOR MAGAZINES. Apart from the excellence of the two serial novels running in the Cornhill Magazine — " The Four Feathers," by Mr. A. E. W. Mason, and the ingeniously frivolous......
The Concession Hunters. By Harold Bindloss. (chatto And...
Bindloss has got back to West Africa, where he is manifestly at home. So much at home, indeed, is he that the scenery of the country may be thought to dominate his style. As we......
If I Were King. By Justin Huntly Mccarthy. (w. Heine-
mania. 6s.)—Mr. McCarthy has made a tale out of his play, and it is a good tale. That it might have been better can hardly be doubted. One improvement, in our judgment, would......
The Jewish Encyclopaedia, Vol. Il* More Than A Year Has
elapsed since the appearance of the first volume of this work (reviewed in the Spectator, August 17th, 1901). We hope that it may be found possible to accelerate this rate of......
Novels.
THE SHEEPSTEALERS.* THE emergence of a book so fresh, so original, and so whole- some as The Sheepstealers is peculiarly welcome at a time when we are bidden to believe that all......