16 OCTOBER 1909, page 25

Novels.

SEVERINS.t BIBS. SIDGWICK is an excellent representative of that limited class of novelists who may always be counted on for bright and wholesome entertainment, and she has......

Mr. Eugene Stock's Recollections.*

IT was a happy thing both for choosers and chosen when in 1873 Mr. Eugene Stock was made editorial secretary of the Church Missionary Society. He held the office for thirty-......

M. J1jsserand's New Volume.f M. Jiisserand Continues In...

volume the subject of the second, a period which is described as " From the Renaissance to the Civil War." Nearly three-fourths of the five hundred and sixty-four pages are......

Oliver Wendell Holmes.*

EXCEPT for an occasional excess of ornament, this is a really good book. There was no occasion to speak of the " sea sobbing herself to sleep against the heedless cliffs after a......