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A Keystone of Empire. By the Author of "The Martyrdom of an Empress." (Harper and Brothers. 7s. 6d.)—The writer of this book would seem to have been very much behind the scenes,......
The Motor Pirate. By G. Sidney Paternoster. (chatto And...
Bs. 6d.) — It is, of course, permissible for a novel which is frankly a " shocker " to be a little thin in quality. A " shocker " must have one startling idea, which must be......
Tychiades. By Alexander Dickeson. (t. Fisher Unwin. 68.)...
may please himself by describing his " Tale of the Ptolemies " as a translation from an original of the third century B.C.; but it would have been well to invent a better name......
My Poor Relations. By Maarten Maartens. (constable And...
any one wishes to see almost unmitigated squalor, let him look at these " Stories of Dutch Peasant Life." "Almost," we say, because there is a little relief here and there,—it......
It Is Highly Necessary In Attempting To Appraise Mr....
work to distinguish between the various forms in which it appears. There is, first, the Mr. Conrad who writes, and writes in inimitable fashion, about the Malay Archipelago and......
Gran'ma's Jane. By Mary E. Mann. (methuen And Co. 6s.)
—Mrs. Mann begins her story in a way that indicates no little courage. A man is hanged; a wife of a year's standing dies in childbirth—the child is the heroine of the story—and......
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