True Stories About Animals. By Edith Carrington. (blackie...
2s.)—These "true stories" are very good to read. Miss Carrington, a well-known friend of animals, has chosen them judiciously. Some are old friends ; with others we make......
Tales From Plutarch. By F. Jameson Rowbotham. (t. Fisher...
5s.)—" Tales from Plutarch" should have more of the Plutarch tone about them. He loved gossip; he was not senti- mental. He would not have put into the mouth of Alcibiades what......
Brought To Heel. By Kent Carr. (w. And R. Chambers.
5s.) —This is a school story, in which a somewhat doubtful subject, the jealousy between the Classical Side and the newly established Modern Side, is made the turning-point. The......
The Three Graces. By Evelyn Everett-green. (andrew...
is no need to say much about this book. It might serve well enough for a novel of the ordinary type, only with nothing in it that could be objected to. The story begins with a......
David Chester's Motto, "honour Bright." By H. Escott -...
and Co. 3s. 6d.)—And a very good motto, too ; yet, perversely enough, we wonder whether two eases of conscience which occur in the story were settled in accordance with it. The......
The Faith Of Hilary Lova. By Evelyn Everett-green....
(ld.)—Mrs. Everett-Green always studies the period in which she elects to place the scene of her story. We have no fault to find with the accessories of her picture, which is a......
The Story Of The Inventor, Lends, Of Course, Unusual...
to the accounts of Marconi's invention and the airships of Santos-Dumont. Railways and bridges are older affairs ; much of their romance is common property ; so that Mr.......
Sons Of Victory. By 0. V. Caine. (nisbet And Co.
5s.)—Now that the Russian armies are in the field, it is not inappropriate to have a story in which Suvoroff is a conspicuous personage. We are permitted to see the great man......
The Brown Fairy Book. Edited By Andrew Lang. (longmans And
Co. 6s.)—Mr. Lang has to go far afield when he wishes to add a new volume to his many-coloured library of fairy-stories. But he does not go in vain. Fortunately for him,......
Pierre. By Mrs. Arthur Bell. (j. M. Dent And Co.
6s. net.) —This is a charming little "story of Normandy." Pierre Lejenne is treated, by the kindness of a neighbour, to a trip to the neighbouring market town. It is a......
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