1 NOVEMBER 1913, page 42

Mr. Stead.*

THE book before us is very difficult to review. It is not, and does not profess to be, a public Life of Miss Estelle Stead's father, but is largely a book of intimate and family......

Fiction.

BENDISH.* Mn. MAXTRICE HEWLETT'S new novel is an interesting example of the latest phase in the evolution of the historical romance. In its early stages it generally took the......

Miranda. By M. E. Braddon. (hutchinson And Co. 6s.)- —in

the year 1862 Miss Braddon produced "Lady Audley's. Secret," a book whose popular appeal may be gauged by the fact that in London now it is being used as a cinematograph- film ;......