When Love Flies Out Of The Window. By Leonard Merrick.
(C. A. Pearson. 6s.)—Love is very likely to fly out of an honest tnan's window when through his sheer inability to make money his wife has to return to the stage and to......
James Chalmers Of New Guinea. By Cuthbert Lennox. (a....
2s. 61. net.)—James Chalmers, after going through some striking experiences in early manhood, offered himself for missionary work in his twenty-second year. A succession of......
A Damsel Or Two. By Frank Frankfort Moore. (hutchinson And
Co. 6s.)—There is an Oriental voluptuousness about Mr. Moore's title which makes the reader a little timid about the possible contents of the book. He need be under no alarm.......
By Bread Alone. By I. K. Friedman. (w. Heinemann. 6s.)—
If the faculty of humour went more often in double harness with the gift of serious insight, how much happier would be the task of the reader and reviewer of fiction ! But......
Mock Beggars' Hall. By M. Betham-edwards. (hurst And...
heaviness but a rather too evident strain after quaintness is the fault of Mock Beggars' Hall, a decidedly clever genre study of rustic manners, morals, and courting in the days......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forme.] Words and their Ways in English Speech. By J. B. Greenough and G. L.......
The Keys Of The House. By Algernon Gissing. (methuen And
Co. 6s.)—There is bold originality, and also a subtle distinction, in Mr. Algernon Gissing's handling of the domestic problem arising out of incompatibility of tastes in husband......
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CLARA. IN BLUNDERLAND. Clara in Blunder/and. By Caroline Lewis. Pictures by S. R. (W. Heinemann. 2s. 61)—So many parodies have been written of the best-known passages in "Lewis......