The Blotting Book. By E. F. Benson. (w. Heinemann. 2s.
6d.) —Mr. E. F. Benson has his own idea of a villain of melodrama. He pictures him as a gentleman of middle age and respectable habits whose attitude to life is that of a mild......
Evadable Novels. Heather O' The Rivers. By W. Harold....
(Greening and Co. 6s.)—A Scotch story in which the heroine is a farmer's daughter.—Angel Esquire. By Edgar Wallace. (J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol. 3s. 6d.) —A rather lurid......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Story of British Diplomacy. By T. H. S. Escott. (T. Fisher Unwin.......
The Magazines.
M. ALFRED DE BILINECII'S paper on "The Turkish Revolu- tion" in the September Nineteenth Century derives an added interest from the fact that he served for several years in the......
Novels.
A LAUGHING MATTER.* SUBURBAN life, in so far as it has formed the theme of recent or contemporary fiction, has in the main been treated either from the standpoint of the......
The Log Of A Sailor Man. By W. Brooke. (the
Century Press. 6s.)—The publisher's note that the author of this book is a mate in a steamship "plying between London and Australia" lends a decided interest to the volume. It......
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