My Friend Prospero. By Henry Harland. (john Lane. Os.) —all
Mr. Harland's readers would have a perfect right to be sadly disappointed if he did not give them in his novels a good dose of the sunshine and the romantic charm of Italy. An......
The Taskmaster. By Alphonse Courlander. (duckworth And...
unredeemed brutality and sordid realism it would be difficult to find the equal of this book. The reader will grant that the story is to a certain extent "powerful " ; but the......
David March. By J. S. Fletcher. (methuen And Co. Os.)—
Mr. Fletcher is so charmed with his book that it is quite a pleasure to read his opening paragraph. "This," he informs the sym- pathetic reader, "is one of those stories which......
The Magnetic North.*
THE IClondyke rush and its sequel have furnished the tellers of tales and the manufacturers of romance with a good deal of raw material, mostly at second hand, to be worked up......