Novels.
A HEROINE FROM FINLAND.* As a set-off to the artificially prepared Anglo-foreign novel— the novel, that is, in which the local colour is the result of an ad hoc excursion—it is......
C Urrent Literature.
ART BOOKS. The Monastery of San Marco. By G. S. Godkin. (J. M. Dent and Co. 35. 6d. net.)—This is a well-written popular account of the wonderful monastery which produced the......
Lives And Legends Of The Evangelists, Apostles, And Other...
Saints. By Mrs. Arthur Bell. (G. Bell and Sons. 14a.)—The lover of Italian art who wishes to know something about holy people so often painted will find much to interest him in......
Mitt Carmichaers Conscience. By Baroness Von Flatten. (c....
2a. 6d.)—It is difficult to say more for this pretty little book than that it is a pleasantly written story with no great pretensions to do more than pass agreeably some half-......
Cashiered, And Other War Stories. By Andrew Balfour. (j....
and Co. 6s.)—" Unequal" is the adjective which must be applied to Mr. Andrew Balfour's war stories; and this not in the sense that the separate stories are unequal in merit, but......
Plots. By Bernard Capes. (methuen And Co. 6s.)—under The...
of Plots Mr. Bernard Capes gives us a volume of collected stories which may be taken as an example of the artificial realism of the day. A great deal of ingenuity has evidently......
The Land Of The Lost. By William Satchell. (methuen And
Co. 6s.)—In The Land of the Lost we have more of the conven- tional realism of pot-house brawling with appropriate oaths and blood. But intertwined with the brutality is a theme......
An Exile In Bohemia. By Ernest E. Williams. (greening And
Co. 6s.)—Cyril Boyton, the hero of Mr. Williams's novel, found " the beautiful city of Prague" anything but a cheerful place to live in. The idea of the book is decidedly good.......
Tales From Gorky. Translated From The Russian, With A...
Notice of the Author, by R. Nisbet Bain. (Jerrold and S,ne. 6s.)—"Realism" has been the word of fiction for a good many years. And some of us have doubted whether the egregious......
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