21 DECEMBER 1912, page 25

Fiction.

CEASE FIRING.t To superficial and fastidious critics who find in the crudities of American life something incompatible with the spirit of romance, there is an abiding and......

A New Book On Port-royal.*

THE story of Port-Royal has been often told, and it will be told many times again. For Port-Royal in its palmy days was a little world—a world in the variety of its characters,......

Tea-table Talk.*

IT does not do to inquire too closely into the artistic justifica- tion of Mrs. Fraser's reminiscences. Ought any lady of our day to be allowed three stout volumes of this most......