Fiction.
UNOFFICIAL* NOVELS with a. war motive are already beginning to pour from the press. Mr. Bohun Lynch, however, has wisely abstained from any premature attempt to extract......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Notice in this column doss not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Boon (T. Fisher Unwin, 6s.) is a work of an ambiguous character. Its title-page runs as follows : "Boon,......
Frederic Reitlinger Escaped From Paris In A Balloon In...
1870, and went as an envoy from the French Govern- ment to Vienna and London to attempt to induce Austria and England to intervene in the war on the side of France. He......
Mr. Gilbert Cannon Has Called His New Volume Of Satirical
fables Windmills (Martin Seeker, 5s. net). The reference in the title is not to Don Quixote, but, as we gather from a quotation at the beginning, to A Tale of a Tub. Swift, in......
Starveacre. By J. Mills Witham. (methuen And Co. 6e.) —the
writer of Starveacre is certainly at his ease in a dramatic situation. There are powerful emotions flaring against the quiet country background of Thunderton, and those......
From The Shelf. By Paxton Holgar. (j. Il Dent And
Sons. Se. 6c1. net.)—" On the Shelf," says a contemporary writer, " we are alert in every nerve, and feel the life, what is left of it, in every limb. Some of us are proud to be......
Readabls Novels.—the Herb Of Healing. By G. B. Burgin•....
and Co. 6s.)—There is some humour and some pathos in this story of Canadian life; but we cannot deny that on the whole it is lacking in interest.—Gold and Thorns. By Max......
A Few Years Ago Mr. Arthur H. Engelbach Published A.
collection of legal anecdotes, which met with some popularity. He has now brought out a second volume of them with the title More Anecdotes of Bench and Bar (Grant Richards, 3s.......
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