... . By Jack London. {Is bister, os.) Mr. Jack London's great clanger was monotony. He could handle admirably the horrors of the frozen trail in the Far North- West, and gave as no writer has contrived to do the picture of the gold rush to the Yukon. But in A Daughter of the Snows he has imparted a new touch to his characterisation. Already he has shown us the finer qualities of womanhood amid ...

... 14 . By A. T. Quiller-Couch. C assell. 6s.) The casual novel-reader, who is accustomed to judge a book by its title, will jump to the conclusion that The Adventures of Harry Revel is a book for boys. For once in a wav. the casual novel-reader will be ria-ht. This latest work of Mr. Quiller-Couch's is admirably adapted for the school library or would be, were it not for a few stray oaths and ...

... . By James Bryce. (Macmillan. 10s Mr. Bryce's lucid and penetrating style has found ample opportunity in his series of biographical studies of men who were great figures in the nineteenth century. The book opens and closes, appropriately enough, with essays on the two greatest political antagonists of the period, Disraeli and Gladstone. The Disraeli sketch possesses, of course, a peculiar ...

... By Thomas Cobb. (Chapman and Hall. 6s.) New book though it is, Mr. Thomas Cobb's latest volume is not likely to cause that besieging of the circulating libraries by literary dowagers and their grand-daughters of which Hazlitt writes so bitterly in one of his most caustic essays. However important such commonplace love-affairs as those dealt with by Mr. Cobb may be to the participants, they are ...

... . By J. H. Yoxai.L, M.P. Hu tch in son 6s.) Mr. Yoxall has aptly named his story a romance of 1899, for surely no better description could be found for this tale of the quondam tourist-guide, would-be conspirator, and wholly delightful Alain danger, with its setting of old-world Brisac, where even yet leisured labour, talkative toil, siesta rest, joyous forenoons, and charmed evenings ...

... . By Gilbhrt Parkf.r. {Me th lien.) is a volume of short stories of Canada by Sir Gilbert Parker, and when that is said little more, we think, is needed to com mend it to the reader. The familiar hand loses none ot its cunning, the eye none of its vision, the tongue of the born story-teller has not forgotten its magic. Open the book where you will, the life of the Far West starts into being ...

... . By S. Barixg-Gould. {Methuen. 6s.) Mr. Baring-Gould's new novel has sense and is not wanting in sensibility. The scene of the story is that portion of South Wales which still stands out historically as the heritage of those who battle for a lost cause. At St. Davids, as the author himself points put with candour, the Church cowers before the bluster of a dominant Calvinism. Here is the ...

... . By Dorothea Gerard. {Methuen. 6s.) Dorothea Gerard (Madame Longard de Longgarde) has hit upon a really striking idea for this novel-- that of a great doctor who kills off those of his patients whose family history shows any trace of hereditary disease. His dream is to purify humanity, so that posterity may be free from such scourges as cancer and consumption. Thanks to a. marvellous lous ...

... BELLAMY THI; MAGNIFI CENT AN EXTRAVAGANZA. By Roy Horniman. {Chat to and Windus. 6s.) The sub-title of Mr. Horniman's latest novel saves criticism a world of trouble. Bellamy the Magnificent is not only an extravaganza; it is as brightly written a piece of fooling as may be met with in a month's traffic of the circulating library. Even the tragedy at the end does nothing to alter the ...

... NEW TREASURE- SEEKERS. By K. Nksiut {Fisher Umvin. 6s It seems we are never to hear any more of that most engaging and high-spirited young family, the Bastables. For, at the very end of this book, Your affectionate author, Oswald Bastable, says that it is the last story that the present author means ever to be the author of. It is positively cruel of Mrs. Bland, the more so that in one ...

... THE BOOK AND ITS AUTHOR. THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE. IN two handsome volumes Mr. Justin McCarthy presents as with a series of pictures, sometimes brilliant and always interesting, of what is generally termed the Augustan Age of English History. The Reign of Queen Anne (Chatto and Windus) is no dry-as-dust historical compilation, full of minute but arid detail conscientiously laboured, neither ...

... . By Kathkrink Cecil Thurston. Rlachsvoori. 6s. The title is taken from the quotation In youth, we dream that life is a straight line later, we know it to be a circle in which the present presses on the future, the future on the past. When Anna Solny deserted her home, she tried to forget the old curiosity-shop in which she had spent her childhood, her father, who seemed to place her second ...