... REVIEWS. • HALF-ACRE,' by Alien ; ' : T. Fisher Unwin. Whoever Alien ' may be, he or she, has written some very readable books, but none more interesting than rho Devil's Half-Acre' which, for ingenuity of plot and vividness of demcription surpasses ...

... REVIEWS. . • = Sweidden Th mire, by S;iOWDEN. London, T. Werner Laurie. Mr lieighley Snowden knows his York - shire folk evea more intimately than Mr ThonefsHardyknowa the Wessex peasantry. He has, perhaps; a saner, more humour, .. milt kindly insight ...

... REVIEWS An Enolibh-Cantnnes , t Pocket Vocabulary, by J. DYER BALL, T.S 0., etc. Hongkong, Messrs Kelly and Walsh, Ltd. The fouith edition, revised and correctea, of Mr J. Dyer Ball's well-known English- Cantonese Pocket Vocabulary reaches us. The first ...

... REVIEWS. The Decorative Art if Japan, by Sir nom) ; Hongkong, Masers. Kelly and Walsh, Ltd. One cannot but admire—the student and connoisseur would instead be inclined to write envy—the intense literary activities of Sir Francis Piggott, Kt., Chief Justice ...

... REVIEWS. Dcrirai.i, by FRAFCES G BirIIMESTEIt. Geolge Bell and Sons. Bertha Gillespie came of a race in whom deafness was hered tary, but this fact was carefully kept secret lest it should injure her matlinmeial prospects. Consequently when Joe Lawson ...

... REVIEW. The Island Dependencies of Japan, Etc. By Charlotte M. Balmy. Eugene L. Morloe. 8/ Net. ...

... REVIEWS Barter, by G RETIE S. WENTWORTH M Eh. London, Bell's Colonial Library. This is a novel which halts between two opinions. First we have introduced to us a young girl, unsophisticated, but fairly well educated, who through stress of misfoitune is ...

... REVIEWS. 7he V.ki.g Hour, by HAROLD WINTLE. London, T. Fisher Unwin. It was an old tradition among the dwellers in the countries bordering on the Levant that the fabled Queen of the Amazons had to kill a man before she could wed one. That is the underlying ...

... REVIEWS. A Village Commoinity, by HOPE DAWLI,H. Hongkong, Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, Ltd.; London, Messrs George Allen and Sons This book has created qui . e a furore in literary circles in England and most of the reviews which we have read border on the ...

... REVIEWS. Travel and Exploration. A monthly magazine and review. Exploration, pure and simple, does not take quite so prominent a place as usual in the December number of Travel and Exploration. Room had to be found for reviews of unusually important Travel ...

... REVIEWS. Great Oircle. Tracks on North Pacific Ocean, by W. R. Jeffcott, Lieutenant, R.N.R. (Extra Master) : Hongkong, Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, Ltd. Captain Jeffeott has prepared a very handy volume which should appeal to every mariner traversing the ...

... REVIEWS. Thouyht and fact for to-day. By CLAY MACAULAY, M.A. Hongkong, Messrs. Kelly and Walsh. This book is divided into three sections. The first is The Social Problem, A Study The second, Signs of Peace for the World and the last The Ignorance ...