15 JUNE 1907, page 21

Novels.

THE CALL.* MR. DESMOND COKE made a most prosperous start in fiction with his excellent school story, The Bending of a Twig, and followed it up with an ingenious and suggestive......

Mr. Frederic Harrison's " Apologia." • Mr. Frederic...

is like Cardinal Newman's in one respect,—that its strength lies in its sincerity, and not in its arguments. From each writer's history of his religious career we can understand......

The Circumnavigator.*

XL KITSON has made some discoveries about the life of the great explorer, Captain Cook, which are well worth the trouble he has expended on them, and they leave the voyages......