Respectability. By Bohun Lynch. (cape. Is. 6d.)...
sense in which it is used by Mr. Bohun Lynch, is a horrible word, suggesting smugness, self- . satisfaction and mock decency. All Esther Wade's relations were respectable snobs......
The Black Buddha. By Lady Chitty. (jenkins. 7s. 6d.)—the...
Buddha is a large statue, belonging to a lawyer. The lawyer is stabbed, and some papers relating to buried treasure arc secreted within the image by the escaping murderer. The......
Fiction
Dekker's Dim Brown Masterpiece 10s. 6d.) DOUWES DEKKER was thoroughly of his period. The very name under which he wrote is enough to date him. Multatuli, " I have borne much " :......
Tenacity. By Guy Cottar. (jarrolds. 7s. 6d.)—mr. Guy...
avoided many of the pitfalls so dangerous to writers of sensational fiction. His hero is not too doughty, his heroine is not too wonderful, and he has mingled romance with......
. The House Of Happiness And Other Stories. By Ethel
M. Dell. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.)—This book contains four tales. Two of them are mere trifles. The other two are abbreviated novels. The title-story introduces us to Anne and......
Current Literature
THE SEVENTH DIVISION, 1914-18. -By C. T. Atkinson, (Murray. 16s.)—Plainly the official history of the War will constitute the chief quarry for future historians of the period,......
- Congress : 'an Explanation. By Robert Luce. (harvard...
Press and H. Milford. Ss. net.)—Thu little book by a member of Congress is designed for the American public who, it seems, pay little attention to their legislature. But -Mr.......
Religion And Art In Ashanti. By Captain C. S• Rattray.
(The Clarendon Press. 30s.)—It was pointed out in that extraordinarily illuminating book, Mr. Edwin Smith's The Golden Stool, that it is before all - things - necessary that a......
Seed-pods. By Mrs. Henry Dudeney. (collins. 7s. 6d.)...
away from a convent and joins a theatrical touring party, playirq Seed-Pods. An actor, who reappears later in the book, falls m love with her. But Lisette's ambition is for......
Bismarck, Andrassy And Their Successors. By Count Julius...
Fisher Unwin. 25s.)—While Bismarck and Andrassy directed the foreign policy of Berlin and Vienna, all went smoothly in Europe ; their successors, and especially Prince von......
High Snow. By " Ganpat " (m. L. A. Gompertz).
(Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—This novel, which deals with the adventures of a small party of explorers in Tibet, and which describes in especial how one of their number finds......
The Anglo-saxons In England. By Nils Aberg. (cambridge :...
12s. 6d.):-Hiatorians have slowly realized that the true story of the Anglo-Saxon settlement in England cannot be pieced out from the scanty literary evidence. The late J. R.......