Monitor At Megson's. By Robert Leighton. (cassell And Co....
6d.)—The boys at Haddisthorpe—of which school Megson's i3 a house—have more than their share of sensational excitement. It commences with the advent of Pierre Le Roy, a boy of......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Under this heading tee notice *Isola Boobs of the *eels as have net been reserved for revitto in ether forms.] The Story of the Later Popes. By the Rev. Charles S. ThaliCSOn.......
The First Claim. By H. Hamilton. (methuen And Co. Cs.)—
Readers of "Cut Laurels" will be more than a little disappointed in this book. The story is extremely clever ; but it is so painful that the present writer, at any rate, found......
Current Literature.
JOHN CALVIN. John Calvin. By Williston Walker. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 6s.)—Professor Walker, who holds the Chair of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Yale, has given us......
The Modern Way. By Mrs. W. K. Clifford. (chapman And
Hall. 6s.)—More than one of these stories might be credited with the title of the last tale in the volume, "A Grey Romance." ' They certainly are not a cheerful collection, and......
Novels.
THE BELOVED VAGABOND.* NOVEL-READERS ought always to be grateful to a writer who strikes out a new line, writes fresh variations on an old theme, or in any way emancipates......
The White House. By H. E. Braddon. (hurst And Blackett.
6s.)—No one who reflects otl the length of time during which Miss Braddon has been working and on her enormous output can help being surprised at the unimpaired freshness and......
Gift-books.
Bather a Sc,apegrace. By Mrs. Neville Cubitt. (S.P.C.K. 2s. 6d.) —Raymond Curtis is the chief figure in the book. He is a type of the straightforward schoolboy, with no more......
Women And The , West. By Charles Marriott. (eveleigh...
his short stories Mr. Charles Marriott frees himself from the congestion of style which marks some of his longer novels. These sketches are quite different from the ordinary......
New Chronicles Of Don Q. By K. And Hesketh Prichard.
(T. Fisher ITnwin. 6s.)—It was a true instinct which made the readers of the former volume of adventures of "Don Q." sceptical as to the finality of the brigand's disappearance.......
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