The Spanish Lady. By Margaret L. Woods. (cape. 7s. 6d.)—it
is a difficult thing to write a good historical novel, for it is far easier to create than to renovate, but the author of The Spanish Lady has succeeded admirably. Her portrayal......
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DENIED A COUNTRY. By Herman Bang. (Knopf. 7s. 6d.)—To possess a thing is not always to appreciate it, and the truest patriot may be the outcast, who, denied an actual Country,......
O'flaherty The Great. By John Cournos. (knopf. 7s....
novel seems to have been suggested by the well-known story about Leonardo da Vinci, that a " model " who came to sit to him for Judas Iscariot turned out to be the same man who......
Palafox. By Sandys Wason. (cope And Fenwick. 7s. 6d.)—as Mr.
Compton Mackenzie says, in his introduction to Mr. Sandys Wason's first novel, " If you have never gone hunting the snark or taken a trip in a peagreen boat or are ignorant of......
Lost Kinnellan. By Agnes Mure Mackenzie. (heinemann. 7s....
is a delicate charm about the opening of this story of a man mismated, which is not improved by the extremely melodramatic final section. Miss Mure Mackenzie's talent lies in......
The Heroine. By Eaton Stannard Barrett. (elkin Mathews...
7s. 6d. net.)—To people who do not like satire Mr. Sadleir's introduction to The Heroine, a novel of 1815, may seem the best part of the volume. The main story is a satire on......
Peacocks. By Vennette Herron. (john Murray. 7s. 6d....
seven admirable stories of Java, some of which have already appeared in the Conduit Magazine. Where all are good it is difficult to choose the best, but perhaps " Gamelan," the......
The Man Who Knew. By F. A. M. Webster. (selwyn
and Blount. 7s. 6d. net.)—A long and well-sustained story of an attempted rising of the black races of the earth against the white. This is ultimately frustrated. by three men,......
Hula. By Atmine Von Tempski. (john Murray. 7s. 6d. Net.)—the
most interesting thing about this romance of Hawaii is that the author succeeds in imparting a feeling of the South Sea Islands into this otherwise not very original comedy of......
Sardonic Tales. By Villiers De L'isle-adam. (knopf. 7s....
of short stories, which Mr. Arthur Symons has described as possessing " every classic quality of the French conk, together with many of the qualities of Edgar Allen Poe and......
The Immortal Marriage. By Gertrude Atherton. (john...
net.)—The historic novel is always with us, but Miss Gertrude Atherton in her heroic tale of ancient Greece boldly throws over all archaic models. Yet it is difficult to feel......
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