17 NOVEMBER 1906, page 7

Gift-books.

A TALE OF PRESENT-DAY LONDON.* WE have a vivid remembrance of a good novel from Miss Heddle's pen, The Town's Verdict, and in this volume we have a good gift-book story. The......

Two Indian Stories.*

BOTH of these stories are written, so to speak, by experts. Mr. Strang and Mr. Macmillan both know India at first hand, and not from books only. We do not wish to depreciate the......

The Real Louis Xv.* The Subject Of Colonel Haggard's New

book on French Court history is both unsavoury and dull. There never lived a duller man than Louis XV., or a King who was a greater curse to his country. And this not because of......