The Novel Of The Week.* We Cannot Pronounce Mr. Gilbert
Parker's new novel to be by any means the best, though it is perhaps the most highly coloured, of the many picturesque romances that have come from his pen. But it stands out......
Barbara West. By Keighley Snowden. (john Long. Ga.)- We...
that Barbara West is written with the intention of doing good. But we doubt very much whether any good is really done by novels that show up the cowardly vice of vulgar men and......
The Youngest Girl Of The School. By Evelyn Sharp. (macmillan
and Co. 6s.)—In The Youngest Girl of the School Miss Sharp shows something of that understanding of the ways of large families that was the supreme gift of Miss Yonge. The......
The Laird's Luck, And Other Fireside Tales. By A. T.
Cartiller. Couch. (Cassell and Co. 6s.) — We always thought a "brownie' was a spirit entirely given up to kind and innocent labours in the service of specially favoured mortals......
Other Novels.
Stephen Calinari. By Julian Sturgis. (A. Constable and Co. 60—The quality which will first strike the hardened novel- reader in Mr. Julian Sturgis's new story is the unusual......
The Embarrassing Orphan. By W. E. Norris. (methuen A . Na...
6s.)—Mr. Norris, on whom we may always rely for something pleasant, gives us what is not common in the fiction of to-day, ,, a suspense. For a time we really do not know whom......
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