23 MARCH 1912, page 23

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under This heading we NOUN, such Books of the week as have awl Leen reserved for review in other fome.1 Other Sheer. By Harold Begbio. (Hodder and Stoughton. 68.) —Mr. Begbie......

Novels.

BETWEEN TWO STOOLS.t THOUGH forty-five years have passed since the appearance of Miss Broughton's first novel, time has left no trace on the energy and freshness of her powers......

In The Early Years Of The Nineteenth Century During Tho

adminis- tration of General Jackson. The scene is chiefly laid in West Tennessee, on an estate called Belle Plain, and the pictures of life among the white population in those......

The Compleat Oxford Man. By A. Hamilton Gibbs. (skeffing-...

and Son. Ss. 6d. net.)—Does any one ever read Verdant Green nowadays or Peter Prig gins ? It would be worth while to compare with one or the other this new picture of Oxford......

Readable Novels.—the Guests Of Hercules. By C. N. And A.

M. Williamson. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—This is a story of Monte Carlo and of a young lady who, recognizing she has no vocation to be a nun, repairs thither in the reaction of her......