6 AUGUST 1898, page 21

Recent Novels"

Jr is always a good sign when a young writer of talent tries his strength in different directions. Mr. Maugham began with a picture of life in Lambeth, whose repulsive realism......

The Magazines.

THE Nineteenth Century publishes several most readable papers this month, besides Sir Wemyss Reid's eulogium on Mr. Gladstone, which is interesting from its writer's enthu-......