Appointed, by a
OF ISTAR, by William Le Queux ; and order to that most disturbed little state.
OF ISTAR, by William Le Queux ; and order to that most disturbed little state.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
Sydney Perks, and Bax speaks of Socialists being the best
The title of this book well indicates its shares with him the hope that the western judges of whatconstitutes Socialism, the state-
scope. The author describes the well-crypt may be restored to something like ment is capable of so much modification as
known tourist centres and the winter sports its original form. The visit was concluded to be useless when applied to this Ishmael
of Switzerland which have recently come by an inspection of the Museum, where among Socialists. Some things which Mr. Bax
into such immense vogue. He slips over among the antiquities were seen the gifts specially emphasizes are of lesser importance
the ground as lightly as a ski-runner, now made by Mr. Michael Pope, who was for when considered in relation to the larger
speculating whether his travelling com- many years one of the Ramblers. Another views of other Socialists for instance, his
panion wears Jaeger underclothing, now visit was to St. Margaret Pattens, the warni. g as to the danger of losing sight of the
finding it strange that the Vaudois, “like meinbers being shown over the church by necessarily democratic character of Socialism
the English, have continued attached to the rector, the Rev. St. Barbe s. Sladen. is less necessary than he thinks, owing to the
the religion which was forced upon them All Hallows, Lombard Street, was also fact that almost all Socialists are in favour
by their masters for purely political objects. " visited. In the church is a tablet recording of adult suffrage.
one
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Spargo (J. ) and Arnor (G. L. ), ELEMENTS OF
SOCIALISM. Now York, Macmillan Co.
Scbool-Books.
Fiction.
This is a valuable text-book from the other casar in Britain and Belgium, Simplified AotńP, STREAMS or Music, or PURITY,
side of the Atlantic, whonco so many works Text, with Introduction, Notes, Exer-
AND OF LOVE.
Century Press
on Socialism now reach us. The summary cises, and Vocabulary by J. H. Sles-
The intention of this book is obviously
at the end of the chapters has obvious ad- man, 1/6
Cambridge University Press inadequate. It revels in sentimentality and
Cambridge University Press excellent, but its execution is in every way
vantages over a synopsis at the beginning,
and though perhaps few will trouble to By the elimination of difficult passages platitude, and displays no ray of humour.
formulate in words answers to the questions the compiler of this little book has succeeded Ball (Oona H. ), A QUIET HOLIDAY, 1/ net.
which follow the summaries, they are cor- in producing a suitable reader for pupils
Cassell
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who have reached their second year at
Latin. The Introduction gives a short person by a girl who is asked to go down
A curious little story, written in the first
Education.
account of Cæsar and of the military arrange; into the country and write a book.
Her
ments of the Romans, while the notes and
vocabulary are ample. There are some fifty jotting everything down she manages to fill
lack of inspiration forms the theme, but by
Harrower (Prof. ), MAP OF THE GREEKLESS
exercises for retranslation, based on the
AREAS OF SCOTLAND, with Notes.
136 pages. We find nothing very striking,
Aberdeen University Press subject-matter and idioms of the text.
but the author's style is quiet and unpre-
tentious.
A map of Scotland with an explanatory Lectures et Exercices, Cours Supérieur, Bo’ld (Paul), THE TEMPLE OF DREAMS, 6/
essay on the disappearance of Greek there,
odited by F. M. S. Batchelor, 2/
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Ham-Smith
Greek in schools.
One hundred pages of extracts from the of Peru should be re-incarnated after &
That the head of the ancient royal line
works of the best-known French authors
Moore, (J. H. ), ETHICS AND EDUCATION, of the last century form a good class-book lapse of nearly two thousand years as an
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The author's profound enthusiasm is the devoted to exercises and questions on
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seeing in a dream the events of his previous
grammar, based on the preceding text.
Believ.
In
existence; but that he should be called
ing that ethics can be taught by precept he Black’s Reform French Series.
again to rule over the remnants of his people
suggests a practical course of ethical culture.
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somewhat destroys the illusion the author
has been at such pains to create. The
religion; the question remains-What ethics? BOOK, 2/ Cambridge University Pross dream, however, is the main thing, and here
Public Schools at a Glance (Boarding Schools
This is an attempt to produce a first
the plot is neatly planned and carried
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out; the characters are interesting, though
we should have liked them better had
Parents and Guardians in Selecting, a
only for those who have mastered the first
their names boen legs confusing.
Public School for their Boys, edited by principles of analysis, and may be regarded Charlesworth (M. E. ), THE RELENTLESS
Mrs. Beverley Ussher, Vol. I.
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specialists. For instance, it might give a
than a transient interest. One of the Brief has therefore failed to move us.
list of the recently published translations Biographies of the Good and Great.
Enock (C. Reginald), BRANSTON HEATH, 6/
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Dent
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to scholars ?
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the
Sandys (Sir John Edwin), ARISTOTLE's literature—from Beowulf, Havelok, laws being especially vigorous. In the con-
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A melodramatic tale of love, intrigue, and
portant respect from his former views. The
murder belonging to the class that Steven-
whole work has been revised, two now
son labelled aptly as
tushery. "
emendations by the editor appear in the
Shenessey (S. ), THE CHILDREN'S WORLD, 1/6
A. & C. Black Farr (Florence), THE SOLEMNIZATION OF
toxt, the commentary has been enlarged by
JACKLIN.
A. C. Fifield
fifteen pages, and lapse of time has doubled Presumably the sixty-two pictures in this “ To me the work of making the mind
the bibliography. The scantiness of these book were given to the author with instruc- clear by first-hand experience is the holy
differences is å striking tribute to the tions to dilate on the subjects suggested. alchemy of life, I call it Solemnization but
scholarship of a book published nearly The result seems likely to puzzle rather than I recognize it also under the mask of Lovity;":
twenty years ago.
ploase a juvenile reader.
So runs the Preface; the argument is, in
are
on
more
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6/
we6/
other words, that husband and wife should Meado (L. T. ), THE HOUSE OF BLACK MAGIC, Watson (E. H. Lacon), THE FAMILY LIVING,
spend a considerable time before matrimony
White & Co.
John Murray
seeking that mental clarity which shall This melodramatic story is weak and un- An interesting psychological study of a
indicate that their real happiness lies in worthy of a practised writer.
young man who is brought up to regard
each o hor. Much clever writ ng is wasted Phillpotts (Eden), THE THREE KNAVES.
himself as his father's successor at the
on this theme. The dedication to the
Rectory. He has doubts as to the validity
Macmillan
Man who shall be" is mystifying.
of the Christian faith, and many complica-
The publishers show considerable entor- tions ensue, including a somewhat involved
Gibbs (George), THE FORBIDDEN WAY, 6/
prise in issuing at the price of seven-
love-affair, before he overcomes his scruples
Appleton & Co. pence
a new detective
story. Mr. Philipptts and fulfils his dead parents' wishes.
We are introduced in this story to many setting, his chief villain being a horticulturist
General.
charming and original characters, people with a criminal past who lives in a state of
who know and feel the joys of life and who disguise. The drama is sufficiently com- | Army Review (The), April, 1/
can be emotional without being melo- plicated to allow of some startling surprises,
Stationery Office
ionery
dramatic. Whether in the wild and lawless but the private-inquiry agent who solves it at British Chamber of Commerce of Turkey,
gold-fields of Colorado or amongst the élite last seems strangely indifferent to getting Quarterly Trade Journal, March, 2/6
of New York society, this romantic narrative hold of a man whom he knew long since
Constantinople
is never dull.
to be a heartless murderer. His lingering Carey (A. E. ), 1913, AND OTHER Essays,
cannot, in fact, be justified by his privato 2/6 not.
Burleigh
Gillett (Fred. ), THE JOY OF JONES, 6/
wishes and aims.
A dedication to The Dream-Spinners,'
Greening Mr. Phillpotts writes, naturally, much a successful Preface containing an interesting
Though this story has faults, notably better than the average purveyor of sensa- anecdote of the Prime Minister, and fourteen
those of exaggeration and a tendency to tion. We should not call this sort of story essays of very varying merit make up this
revive old jests, it is relieved and made his forte, but he is ingenious enough to slim volume. Mr. Carey is at his best when
readable by a fund of quiet and kindly while away the time of the traveller, and he he leaves the ephemera of politics, and
humour. We do not think that Jones, the spares us the preternaturally stupid persons wanders in the fruitful field of local history
little London clerk spending his conva- who often spoil this sort of fiction.
and topographical reminiscence. He writes
lescence on a Norfolk farm, could be such
of old Brighton and the South Coast with
a fool as the author would have us believo, Protheroe (Hope), His LORDSHIP'S BABY, 6/
and some of the other characters are some-
Century Press considerable charm and distinction. Some
what shadowy ; but the old farmer himself the title hardly leads one to expect, and demy.
A story full of strange intrigues which of the essays are reprinted from The Aca-
is delightfully drawn.
which, though improbable, holds the reader's Laurence (S. E. ), A NURSE'S LIFE IN WAR
Gissing (Algernon), THE TOP FARM, 6! interest. It deals with hereditary insanity AND PEACE, 5/
Smith & Elder
White & Co. in an old and noble family, a gruesome A generous endowment of humour and
The author fails to stimulate our interest cupboard skeleton,” an irregular descent, determination, noticeable even in the school.
in this incoherent story. We often find it murders, thunderstorms, and the arrival girl correspondence with which the book
difficult to imagine the motive underlying of a baby, the
heir. The old family butler opens, must have been needed to carry the
the actions of pers ing whose lack of vitality is the best-drawn of the characters; other author through the seemingly endless pano-
renders them ineffective. The climax - in wise they are mere puppets pushed to and rama of human suffering in hospitals at
the form of a double fatality—is obviously fro as the plot requires. Of these the earl's home and in the field abroad which she
arranged to further the matrimonial arrange. six-year-old daughter is the most unnatural describes. Reading her simple, unaffected
ments of the two chief characters. The book in her behaviour and conversation. Would narrative, and remembering that behind
for the most part deals with country life, any child of that age have the nerve to her outstanding example is a vast healing
and has some originality in conception. run away from her companions on her first army grappling, hourly with disease in
visit to å dark castle, and wake the echoes circumstances which have no glamour and
Horn (Kate), THE BRIDE OF LOVE, 6! with wild shrieks to frighten a detested scant reward, one is amazed and inspired by
Stanley Paul aunt! On the whole, the book is overlong, the passion for service which leads so many
We regret that we are unable to commend and insufficient care has gone to the writing to sacrifice their vigour and best energies
of it.
this book. In our opinion the author's
in the interests of mankind. The perfect
style and treatment do not justify her Richards (H. Grahame), LUCREZIA BORGIA'S nurse may be of those whose“ price is above
sensational melodrama or the length of it. ONE LOVE, 6/
Blackwood rubies," as suggested by Sir F. Treves in the
Those who like lurid descriptions of Preface; but this does not relieve the com-
Keays (H. A. Mitchell), THE MARRIAGE tortures and lingering deaths, passion, munity of the responsibility for providing
PORTION, 6/
Grant Richards poison, murder, fighting, and intrigue, will the rank and file with hire worthy of the
In spite of many pages of vivid writing, we discover here everything they desire. To worker, and better accommodation than the
cannot say that any clear-cut presentment of the critical the pigments may appear too ill-ventilated qubicle “small, dark, not a
the characters remains after a perusal of the lavishly laid on, and the style not always window to each, nor even a gas-jet to each ”
book. In seeking to transfer to the printed beyond reproach ; but for sheer vigour and
-which Mr. Sidney Holland found on
page the complexity of life the author has excitement the story will hold its own with recent visit to a provincial hospital.
obliterated defining lines; moreover her most.
Writing in letter form, Miss Laurence
manipulation of her puppets is too obvious. Tracy (Louis), A SON OF THE IMMORTALS, 6/
describes her experiences as a raw proba-
She would do well to remember that
tioner in a London hospital and work in
Ward & Lock various departments, a visit to Luxor with
thoughts daring in themselves iſ credited to
By a sudden turn of Fortune's wheel an
libertines lose for most people whatever they athletic young man, whose father is an
& private patient, and subsequent years in
have of good in them.
London. Then follow her South African
exiled monarch living in Paris, becomes King
Long's Sixpenny Cloth Novels : THE Eve Alexis III. of Kosnovia, and tries to restors experiences, and these will doubtless interest
the general reader most.
Appointed, by a
OF ISTAR, by William Le Queux ; and order to that most disturbed little state. stroke of good fortune, as military sister
A WOMAN PERFECTED, by Richard There is plenty of incident and romance in in Princess Christian's Reserve, she toiled
Marsh.
the story, but we think that autocratic through a rough and anxious time in a
measures would have been more successful,
Macmillan's Sevenpenny Series :
both in effect and in interest, than were the hospital, the gift of one whose name is not
THE GIANT FISHER, by Mrs. Hubert hero's efforts for peace. The author often mentioned, fitted for 100 beds, but early
lapses into an archaic prose which adds number. No one will be surprised to find
Barclay.
accommodate double that
JOHN SILENCE, by Algernon Blackwood. nothing to the strength of the narrative, Miss Laurence adding her note to the chorus
For notice see Athen. , Oct. 3, 1908, p. 400.
and allows men of action to indulge in of lament that the sorrow and suffering
two-page monologues for which even their entailed by the war
THE LAW OF THE Bolo, by Stanley deeds cannot atone.
was increased by our
Portal Hyatt. For not. co see Athen. ,
want of preparation”; and again, The
Aug. 13, 1910, p. 179.
Turnbull (Clara), THE DAMSEL DARK, 6/ suffering would be enormously lessoned if we
Melrose were better organized in times of peace. "
THE STOLEN BACILLUS, by H. G. Wolls. By & plentiful use of such words as It would have been an additional attraction
For notice soe Athen. , Dec. 21, 1895, p. 868. "unked, branking, a-dither," mouldi- to a vivid narrative if a few photographs
warp," and "alauns” the author endeavours could have been included. Snapshots are
Mason (A. E. W. ), THE FOUR FEATHERS, to induce an old-world atmosphere ; but occasionally mentioned, but there is none,
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valescent Scotchman who was left to exercise
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women.
OF
alone-his comrades preferring worsted-work, millinery” is slowly gaining ground, but
in spite of his contemptuous “They've all the public is less familiar with the tragedies
General
turnod blooming milliners ! - or a well- enacted to obtain fur and gloves. A sec-
known London surgeon grappling with a tional pamphlet such as this covers little Aoker (Paul), LES DEUX CAHIERS, 3fr. 50.
brokon washstand leg in the early unpacking ground, but the wholo question of the rights
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W. Farrar.
Society.
ironical, of the history of two generations of
GARDENING FOR THE IGNORANT, by
The mother, homely, cherishing her
FOREIGN
Mrs. C. W. Earle and Ethel Case.
illusions, and delighting in simple pleasures,
THE RENAISSANCE, by Walter Pater.
Tbeology.
is contrasted with the daughter, oager for
The appearance of Pater's work in a cheap Haby (Joseph), CHRISTUS: Manuel d'His- mentally alert. A quarter of a century
movement, liberty, and the open air, and
edition is particularly welcome.
toire des Religions. Paris, Beauchesne separates them, yet the difference
THE STORY OF THE GUIDES, by Col.
is
G. J. Younghusband.
This book has already reached a fourth
more than that of the advance of one
edition.
For notico see Athen. , June 13, 1908, p. 727.
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Watts
gorrows.
un-
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edited, with Introduction, Notes," Exercises, and rifacimento has now been for several road and posting inns. The title is sug-
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The title of this book well indicates its shares with him the hope that the western judges of whatconstitutes Socialism, the state-
scope. The author describes the well-crypt may be restored to something like ment is capable of so much modification as
known tourist centres and the winter sports its original form. The visit was concluded to be useless when applied to this Ishmael
of Switzerland which have recently come by an inspection of the Museum, where among Socialists. Some things which Mr. Bax
into such immense vogue. He slips over among the antiquities were seen the gifts specially emphasizes are of lesser importance
the ground as lightly as a ski-runner, now made by Mr. Michael Pope, who was for when considered in relation to the larger
speculating whether his travelling com- many years one of the Ramblers. Another views of other Socialists for instance, his
panion wears Jaeger underclothing, now visit was to St. Margaret Pattens, the warni. g as to the danger of losing sight of the
finding it strange that the Vaudois, “like meinbers being shown over the church by necessarily democratic character of Socialism
the English, have continued attached to the rector, the Rev. St. Barbe s. Sladen. is less necessary than he thinks, owing to the
the religion which was forced upon them All Hallows, Lombard Street, was also fact that almost all Socialists are in favour
by their masters for purely political objects. " visited. In the church is a tablet recording of adult suffrage.
one
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Spargo (J. ) and Arnor (G. L. ), ELEMENTS OF
SOCIALISM. Now York, Macmillan Co.
Scbool-Books.
Fiction.
This is a valuable text-book from the other casar in Britain and Belgium, Simplified AotńP, STREAMS or Music, or PURITY,
side of the Atlantic, whonco so many works Text, with Introduction, Notes, Exer-
AND OF LOVE.
Century Press
on Socialism now reach us. The summary cises, and Vocabulary by J. H. Sles-
The intention of this book is obviously
at the end of the chapters has obvious ad- man, 1/6
Cambridge University Press inadequate. It revels in sentimentality and
Cambridge University Press excellent, but its execution is in every way
vantages over a synopsis at the beginning,
and though perhaps few will trouble to By the elimination of difficult passages platitude, and displays no ray of humour.
formulate in words answers to the questions the compiler of this little book has succeeded Ball (Oona H. ), A QUIET HOLIDAY, 1/ net.
which follow the summaries, they are cor- in producing a suitable reader for pupils
Cassell
tainly suggestive.
who have reached their second year at
Latin. The Introduction gives a short person by a girl who is asked to go down
A curious little story, written in the first
Education.
account of Cæsar and of the military arrange; into the country and write a book.
Her
ments of the Romans, while the notes and
vocabulary are ample. There are some fifty jotting everything down she manages to fill
lack of inspiration forms the theme, but by
Harrower (Prof. ), MAP OF THE GREEKLESS
exercises for retranslation, based on the
AREAS OF SCOTLAND, with Notes.
136 pages. We find nothing very striking,
Aberdeen University Press subject-matter and idioms of the text.
but the author's style is quiet and unpre-
tentious.
A map of Scotland with an explanatory Lectures et Exercices, Cours Supérieur, Bo’ld (Paul), THE TEMPLE OF DREAMS, 6/
essay on the disappearance of Greek there,
odited by F. M. S. Batchelor, 2/
intended to supplement the statistics on
Ham-Smith
Greek in schools.
One hundred pages of extracts from the of Peru should be re-incarnated after &
That the head of the ancient royal line
works of the best-known French authors
Moore, (J. H. ), ETHICS AND EDUCATION, of the last century form a good class-book lapse of nearly two thousand years as an
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The author's profound enthusiasm is the devoted to exercises and questions on
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seeing in a dream the events of his previous
grammar, based on the preceding text.
Believ.
In
existence; but that he should be called
ing that ethics can be taught by precept he Black’s Reform French Series.
again to rule over the remnants of his people
suggests a practical course of ethical culture.
But to teach ethics is as vague as to teach Thompson (John), A FIRST - YEAR LATIN
somewhat destroys the illusion the author
has been at such pains to create. The
religion; the question remains-What ethics? BOOK, 2/ Cambridge University Pross dream, however, is the main thing, and here
Public Schools at a Glance (Boarding Schools
This is an attempt to produce a first
the plot is neatly planned and carried
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out; the characters are interesting, though
we should have liked them better had
Parents and Guardians in Selecting, a
only for those who have mastered the first
their names boen legs confusing.
Public School for their Boys, edited by principles of analysis, and may be regarded Charlesworth (M. E. ), THE RELENTLESS
Mrs. Beverley Ussher, Vol. I.
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tional curricula of public schools.
Ballantyne (R. M. ), THE LIFEBOAT, a Tale State of America at the present day that a
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an edition of Theognis published in Chambers's Standard Authors.
tion of guilt and its cheap moralizing, destroys
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Greek which appeals to those who are not sketchy and superficial to enlist our sympathy, and the story of their passions
specialists. For instance, it might give a
than a transient interest. One of the Brief has therefore failed to move us.
list of the recently published translations Biographies of the Good and Great.
Enock (C. Reginald), BRANSTON HEATH, 6/
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Dent
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logical interest are dealt with at considerable
to scholars ?
myths and stories that have enriched our
the
Sandys (Sir John Edwin), ARISTOTLE's literature—from Beowulf, Havelok, laws being especially vigorous. In the con-
CONSTITOTION OF ATAENS, a Revised Canterbury Talos, and the Arthurian Cycle to coption of his plot the author has unfor-
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A melodramatic tale of love, intrigue, and
portant respect from his former views. The
murder belonging to the class that Steven-
whole work has been revised, two now
son labelled aptly as
tushery. "
emendations by the editor appear in the
Shenessey (S. ), THE CHILDREN'S WORLD, 1/6
A. & C. Black Farr (Florence), THE SOLEMNIZATION OF
toxt, the commentary has been enlarged by
JACKLIN.
A. C. Fifield
fifteen pages, and lapse of time has doubled Presumably the sixty-two pictures in this “ To me the work of making the mind
the bibliography. The scantiness of these book were given to the author with instruc- clear by first-hand experience is the holy
differences is å striking tribute to the tions to dilate on the subjects suggested. alchemy of life, I call it Solemnization but
scholarship of a book published nearly The result seems likely to puzzle rather than I recognize it also under the mask of Lovity;":
twenty years ago.
ploase a juvenile reader.
So runs the Preface; the argument is, in
are
on
more
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6/
we6/
other words, that husband and wife should Meado (L. T. ), THE HOUSE OF BLACK MAGIC, Watson (E. H. Lacon), THE FAMILY LIVING,
spend a considerable time before matrimony
White & Co.
John Murray
seeking that mental clarity which shall This melodramatic story is weak and un- An interesting psychological study of a
indicate that their real happiness lies in worthy of a practised writer.
young man who is brought up to regard
each o hor. Much clever writ ng is wasted Phillpotts (Eden), THE THREE KNAVES.
himself as his father's successor at the
on this theme. The dedication to the
Rectory. He has doubts as to the validity
Macmillan
Man who shall be" is mystifying.
of the Christian faith, and many complica-
The publishers show considerable entor- tions ensue, including a somewhat involved
Gibbs (George), THE FORBIDDEN WAY, 6/
prise in issuing at the price of seven-
love-affair, before he overcomes his scruples
Appleton & Co. pence
a new detective
story. Mr. Philipptts and fulfils his dead parents' wishes.
We are introduced in this story to many setting, his chief villain being a horticulturist
General.
charming and original characters, people with a criminal past who lives in a state of
who know and feel the joys of life and who disguise. The drama is sufficiently com- | Army Review (The), April, 1/
can be emotional without being melo- plicated to allow of some startling surprises,
Stationery Office
ionery
dramatic. Whether in the wild and lawless but the private-inquiry agent who solves it at British Chamber of Commerce of Turkey,
gold-fields of Colorado or amongst the élite last seems strangely indifferent to getting Quarterly Trade Journal, March, 2/6
of New York society, this romantic narrative hold of a man whom he knew long since
Constantinople
is never dull.
to be a heartless murderer. His lingering Carey (A. E. ), 1913, AND OTHER Essays,
cannot, in fact, be justified by his privato 2/6 not.
Burleigh
Gillett (Fred. ), THE JOY OF JONES, 6/
wishes and aims.
A dedication to The Dream-Spinners,'
Greening Mr. Phillpotts writes, naturally, much a successful Preface containing an interesting
Though this story has faults, notably better than the average purveyor of sensa- anecdote of the Prime Minister, and fourteen
those of exaggeration and a tendency to tion. We should not call this sort of story essays of very varying merit make up this
revive old jests, it is relieved and made his forte, but he is ingenious enough to slim volume. Mr. Carey is at his best when
readable by a fund of quiet and kindly while away the time of the traveller, and he he leaves the ephemera of politics, and
humour. We do not think that Jones, the spares us the preternaturally stupid persons wanders in the fruitful field of local history
little London clerk spending his conva- who often spoil this sort of fiction.
and topographical reminiscence. He writes
lescence on a Norfolk farm, could be such
of old Brighton and the South Coast with
a fool as the author would have us believo, Protheroe (Hope), His LORDSHIP'S BABY, 6/
and some of the other characters are some-
Century Press considerable charm and distinction. Some
what shadowy ; but the old farmer himself the title hardly leads one to expect, and demy.
A story full of strange intrigues which of the essays are reprinted from The Aca-
is delightfully drawn.
which, though improbable, holds the reader's Laurence (S. E. ), A NURSE'S LIFE IN WAR
Gissing (Algernon), THE TOP FARM, 6! interest. It deals with hereditary insanity AND PEACE, 5/
Smith & Elder
White & Co. in an old and noble family, a gruesome A generous endowment of humour and
The author fails to stimulate our interest cupboard skeleton,” an irregular descent, determination, noticeable even in the school.
in this incoherent story. We often find it murders, thunderstorms, and the arrival girl correspondence with which the book
difficult to imagine the motive underlying of a baby, the
heir. The old family butler opens, must have been needed to carry the
the actions of pers ing whose lack of vitality is the best-drawn of the characters; other author through the seemingly endless pano-
renders them ineffective. The climax - in wise they are mere puppets pushed to and rama of human suffering in hospitals at
the form of a double fatality—is obviously fro as the plot requires. Of these the earl's home and in the field abroad which she
arranged to further the matrimonial arrange. six-year-old daughter is the most unnatural describes. Reading her simple, unaffected
ments of the two chief characters. The book in her behaviour and conversation. Would narrative, and remembering that behind
for the most part deals with country life, any child of that age have the nerve to her outstanding example is a vast healing
and has some originality in conception. run away from her companions on her first army grappling, hourly with disease in
visit to å dark castle, and wake the echoes circumstances which have no glamour and
Horn (Kate), THE BRIDE OF LOVE, 6! with wild shrieks to frighten a detested scant reward, one is amazed and inspired by
Stanley Paul aunt! On the whole, the book is overlong, the passion for service which leads so many
We regret that we are unable to commend and insufficient care has gone to the writing to sacrifice their vigour and best energies
of it.
this book. In our opinion the author's
in the interests of mankind. The perfect
style and treatment do not justify her Richards (H. Grahame), LUCREZIA BORGIA'S nurse may be of those whose“ price is above
sensational melodrama or the length of it. ONE LOVE, 6/
Blackwood rubies," as suggested by Sir F. Treves in the
Those who like lurid descriptions of Preface; but this does not relieve the com-
Keays (H. A. Mitchell), THE MARRIAGE tortures and lingering deaths, passion, munity of the responsibility for providing
PORTION, 6/
Grant Richards poison, murder, fighting, and intrigue, will the rank and file with hire worthy of the
In spite of many pages of vivid writing, we discover here everything they desire. To worker, and better accommodation than the
cannot say that any clear-cut presentment of the critical the pigments may appear too ill-ventilated qubicle “small, dark, not a
the characters remains after a perusal of the lavishly laid on, and the style not always window to each, nor even a gas-jet to each ”
book. In seeking to transfer to the printed beyond reproach ; but for sheer vigour and
-which Mr. Sidney Holland found on
page the complexity of life the author has excitement the story will hold its own with recent visit to a provincial hospital.
obliterated defining lines; moreover her most.
Writing in letter form, Miss Laurence
manipulation of her puppets is too obvious. Tracy (Louis), A SON OF THE IMMORTALS, 6/
describes her experiences as a raw proba-
She would do well to remember that
tioner in a London hospital and work in
Ward & Lock various departments, a visit to Luxor with
thoughts daring in themselves iſ credited to
By a sudden turn of Fortune's wheel an
libertines lose for most people whatever they athletic young man, whose father is an
& private patient, and subsequent years in
have of good in them.
London. Then follow her South African
exiled monarch living in Paris, becomes King
Long's Sixpenny Cloth Novels : THE Eve Alexis III. of Kosnovia, and tries to restors experiences, and these will doubtless interest
the general reader most.
Appointed, by a
OF ISTAR, by William Le Queux ; and order to that most disturbed little state. stroke of good fortune, as military sister
A WOMAN PERFECTED, by Richard There is plenty of incident and romance in in Princess Christian's Reserve, she toiled
Marsh.
the story, but we think that autocratic through a rough and anxious time in a
measures would have been more successful,
Macmillan's Sevenpenny Series :
both in effect and in interest, than were the hospital, the gift of one whose name is not
THE GIANT FISHER, by Mrs. Hubert hero's efforts for peace. The author often mentioned, fitted for 100 beds, but early
lapses into an archaic prose which adds number. No one will be surprised to find
Barclay.
accommodate double that
JOHN SILENCE, by Algernon Blackwood. nothing to the strength of the narrative, Miss Laurence adding her note to the chorus
For notice see Athen. , Oct. 3, 1908, p. 400.
and allows men of action to indulge in of lament that the sorrow and suffering
two-page monologues for which even their entailed by the war
THE LAW OF THE Bolo, by Stanley deeds cannot atone.
was increased by our
Portal Hyatt. For not. co see Athen. ,
want of preparation”; and again, The
Aug. 13, 1910, p. 179.
Turnbull (Clara), THE DAMSEL DARK, 6/ suffering would be enormously lessoned if we
Melrose were better organized in times of peace. "
THE STOLEN BACILLUS, by H. G. Wolls. By & plentiful use of such words as It would have been an additional attraction
For notice soe Athen. , Dec. 21, 1895, p. 868. "unked, branking, a-dither," mouldi- to a vivid narrative if a few photographs
warp," and "alauns” the author endeavours could have been included. Snapshots are
Mason (A. E. W. ), THE FOUR FEATHERS, to induce an old-world atmosphere ; but occasionally mentioned, but there is none,
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valescent Scotchman who was left to exercise
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women.
OF
alone-his comrades preferring worsted-work, millinery” is slowly gaining ground, but
in spite of his contemptuous “They've all the public is less familiar with the tragedies
General
turnod blooming milliners ! - or a well- enacted to obtain fur and gloves. A sec-
known London surgeon grappling with a tional pamphlet such as this covers little Aoker (Paul), LES DEUX CAHIERS, 3fr. 50.
brokon washstand leg in the early unpacking ground, but the wholo question of the rights
Paris, Plon-Nourrit
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of animals may be studied under various M. Paul Acker, already well known in
Macmillan's Now Shilling Library :-
headings — horse - racing, abattoirs, lethal France as the author of Soldat Bornard,'
chambers, tortoiseshell, turkeys, tiny dogs, strikes a new note by the publication of this
ETERNAL HOPE, by the Rev. Fredericotter-hunting, &c. —in the publications of the book. It is a study, at once touching and
W. Farrar.
Society.
ironical, of the history of two generations of
GARDENING FOR THE IGNORANT, by
The mother, homely, cherishing her
FOREIGN
Mrs. C. W. Earle and Ethel Case.
illusions, and delighting in simple pleasures,
THE RENAISSANCE, by Walter Pater.
Tbeology.
is contrasted with the daughter, oager for
The appearance of Pater's work in a cheap Haby (Joseph), CHRISTUS: Manuel d'His- mentally alert. A quarter of a century
movement, liberty, and the open air, and
edition is particularly welcome.
toire des Religions. Paris, Beauchesne separates them, yet the difference
THE STORY OF THE GUIDES, by Col.
is
G. J. Younghusband.
This book has already reached a fourth
more than that of the advance of one
edition.
For notico see Athen. , June 13, 1908, p. 727.
It is an attempt on the part of a generation upon another, for it denotes the
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Speaight
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ization of the Zionist movement are com- privateer captains of St. Malo, he afterwards Breton life, for, as certain chapters sbow,
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Palestine. Wo doubt whether extensive the Comte de Carfort has not enlarged the
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