'bert Edward, The Golf Caddie. By Hbrek.a3 Hutchinson....
)—This is a really charming story, a change, how delight- ful it would not be easy to say, from the bitter fare on which we are too often dieted. 'Bert Edward is a Highland lad,......
Plain And Veldt. By J. H. Abbott._ (methuen And Co.
6s.)— The passion for the lugubrious has mastered our relatives at the Antipodes. Take the first of Mr. Abbott's "stories ahd sketches" tan-ezanrple. Tomnly Carmiehael. is -ea......
Novels.
THE GREY WIG.* Mn. Zanawila. has adopted a curious and not altogether defen- sible method of selection in his new book. "This volume," he observes in a laconic prefatory note,......
Pearl - Maiden. By H. Rider Haggard. (longmans And Co,...
the adventures of the unhappy maiden Miriam, and some of them, to make a "bull," take place before her birth. The story is concerned with the fall of Jerusalem, but opens at the......
The Hill Of Trouble, And Other Stories. By A. C.
Benson. (Isbister and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Benson has tuned his lyre to the romantic key of the Middle Ages. That is, not of the bustling, historical, mediaeval romance, but the Middle......
Bed - Headed Gill. By Rye Owen. (j. W. Arrowsmith,...
—There is a good deal of promise in this book, though the author has not quite made up his (or perhaps her) mind as to the exact effect which he wishes to produce. On to a......
The Private Papers Of Henry Ryecroft. By George Gissing. (a.
Constable and Co. 68.)—This cannot be called a novel, but as "Henry Ryecroft" is doubtless imaginary, we may say that it is fiction. A man of letters who has worked hard for a......
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