15 APRIL 1911, page 23

Once Upon A Time. By Richard Harding Davis. (duckworth And

Co. 6s.)—These short stories are concerned with America, and are very interesting and entertaining sketches of different phases of life there. "The Make-Believe Man" is perhaps......

Readabliz Notalb.—advelditre. By Jack London. (nelson And...

capital story this. David Sheldon with his can- nibal plantation hands and Joan Lackiand make a quite admirable hero and heroine. What a picture of life in Melanesia !—A Woman......

The Early Christians In Rome.*

THE Dean of Gloucester is not a scholar of the first rank, like Han:tack ; nor, perhaps, of the second, like (let us say) the late Dr. Bigg, whose lectures on Early Church......

The Stragglers. By Elizabeth Rebbeck. (francis Griffiths....

her book by the phrase " I Tale of Primal Asperities." "The Lot of Woman in the Backwoods" would have been more intelligible, if less dignified. This is the main subject of the......

Novels..

POOR EhtlitA la THE announcement of a new novel from the pen of Miss Evelyn Tempest revived agreeable memories of The Mardis Peerage, and our anticipations of another......