20 JANUARY 1912, page 24

Three Books About Palestine.*

MR. FRANKLIN gives a most modest account of the way in which his book came into being. Ho has been in the- habit, it seems, of giving lectures to tourist .parties in Palestine,......

Novels.

MR. WYCHERLY'S WARDS.* STUDENTS of the tendencies of modern fiction cannot have failed to notice the revival—we might almost call it the revolt—of the sentimentalists. One......

Great Families,*

IT was a happy idea to publish a series of volumes on " Governing Families" which should not be family histories in the ordinary sense of the term, but narratives of the part......