Renascence Portraits.* Professor Van Dyke, In A Frank And...
preface, states that he wrote his book with "a desire to be interesting": that is to say, he wrote it rather for the general reader than for scientific students of history. He......
Collusion. By Thomas Cobb. (alston Rivers. 6s.)—mr....
sacrificed his powers of story-telling to the snare of brilliant writing. His plots are now of the thinnest, and his characters,though their conversation is always sparkling,......
In The Service Of Love. By Richard Marsh. (methuen And
Co. 6s.)—This is a fine old-fashioned melodrama, though the devices to which the authors of such books are driven in the search for originality are perhaps too painfully evident......
The Ladder To The Stars. By Jane Helen Findlater. (methuen
and Co. 6s.)—A novel from Miss Findlater is always welcome alike to reviewer and reader. Her present book is an interesting study of a literary genius brought up in a quiet......
Novels.
THE CALL OF THE BLOOD.* THE success of Mr. Hichens's new novel is not to be judged merely by reference to the high standard he has set himself in The Garden of Allah. He has......
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