Seientia. (london : Williams And Norgate.)
Scientia is an excellent magazine. It contains scientific papers in French, Italian and English. Though these papers give the results of serious research and must be of value to......
Science Progress.
Science Progress does not seem as interesting as usual this month, although the general considerations on sex- determination and metamorphosis in Mr. Julian Hindey's article on......
The London Mercury.
The April number of the Mercury is poor. There is a pleasant piece of buffoonery in verse by Mr. Vachel Lindsay. Miss Katherine Mansfield's fragmentary story is heavy and......
This Is Not, As Sensational Stories Go, A Particularly Good
one. The conscious and somewhat halting romanticism of manner, the labouring of point in the incident, would be likely to bore us even on a railway journey or with a cold.......
One Could Tell By The Smell Of This Novel That
it was printed in America, apart from the colophon to that effect. At first sight it appears of the bright, homely, detailed kind ; but upon reading it will be found to be not......
The Lunatic Still At Large. By J. Storer Clouston. (nash
and Grayson. 78. 6d.) Someone is certainly to blame for the continued failure to capture this gentleman-madman. Yet his retirement would deprive the world of a quantity of......
Nine Of Hearts. By Ethel Colburn Mayne. (constable. 6s.) It
seems to have been the obvious thing for reviewers to talk of Miss Mayne in connexion with Katherine Mansfield. The two writers have one thing in common : a deep insight into......
This Is A Mystery Story As To Which The Present
writer can only make the confession that, when he had once begat it, all duties—many of them pressing—were neglected till the last page had been reached. The book -is, indeed, a......
The Architects` Journal.
The Architects' Journal (March 28th) is full of interesting matter, including an entertaining article on Wren and an iffinninating and generously illustrated exposition of the......
Blackwood's Magazine.
The most important contribution to the April Blacicwood's is a long memoir of Talent Pasha by Mr. Aubrey Herbert. It is the direct vividness of a first-hand, personal impression......
" Faulkner," The Teller Of The Tale In Mr. Vivian's
story, City of Wonder, is completely mistaken when he sets down in his final notes the sentence, "I have told such a tale as has never been told." On tfie contrary, not only can......
The Walsbury Case. By Ashton Hillier& (methuen. 7s. 6d....
A mystery novel in which the greatest puzzle is for the reader to extract the facts of the story from the almost inextricable confusion of its pages.......
Dry Fish And Wet. By Elias Kraemmer. (gyldendal. 7s. 6d.
net.) A volume of short, humorous stories, somewhat after the W. W. Jacobs kind. Amusing, but the laugh is a little forced. There is so much of this kind of thing already in the......
The Contemporary Review.
The articles of most note in this month's Contemporary Review are Mr. G. P. Gooch's study of Deleasse--an impartial and accurate summary of his career—and Mr. George Glasgow's......
Periodicals.
The National Review. The political notes in the April number are vigorous and bellicose. The editor was, perhaps, ill-advised in printing Mr. Arthur lOtson's three-page letter :......
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