28 MAY 1898, page 21

Recent Novels.*

THE dreariness of most modern dreary novels is gratuitous. Now and again, however, one encounters a book like S cider- znann's _Regina; or, The Sims of the Fathers, in which the......

Mr. Arnold-forster As Historian.*

IT is not surprising that Mr. Arnold-Forster should have been drawn to employ his undoubted gifts for lucid exposition and narrative in the production of a short popular History......