... pseudo-religious order, the story is written in a didactic vein, and has 4 purpose. It is an indictment of vivisection, which is attacked, not ineffectively, from the side of humanity and sentiment. The hero of the story is a young doctor, Hugh Fortescue ...

... the substance of the story. She herself is, s. not a striking figure, but turns up all1 mattera [e of domestic difficulty, and the .ptteracea-of here n gentle, old-fashioned wisdom ?? maksk nher real to us. Though her-love story is ro-d ty mantic, we ...

... Clouston's story differs, however, in one par- fr ticular from other stories of the kind. His im- It personating character plays the part with the IA consent, end indeed at the instigation, of the ' man who is being impersonated. Briefly told, T the story describes ...

... Ghostf r nasionary work countrys ye among the Druids. The story has plenty of rde Iinterest, and should appeal to those. who ?? the pseudo-religious. B les The Lady From Nowhere, a Detective U e's Story. By Fergus Hlume. (London: Since th in Chatto & Windus ...

... critio to set himself up !r as a sceptic. But, in effect, the author does not !r I show the courage of her opinions in this story. d ?? the Juan turns out to be quite a harmless T :t kind of fellowr, very much in love with Ruth . Hlav-ward, and only indulging ...

... in the story that Blaise himself, v.110 may indeed 1 t' bc the ';man, quite overtop~s him. Itenri, provides the onlv love element in the story, yet b his pas-ion for Suzanne de Pomenay is very ri imporfectly sketched. Still, although the story tl iaes ...

... p'hilorrathic Society vouches for the story that, irr arrwewr to the (nuesrion D. fite - parable, an examimnee wrote, A parablo1 is a hleavenaly story with no earthly Imeamln, I ARCHBISTOP lMAGEE'S WIT. Amcng stories of Dr. Magee it is told that when ...

... nobody in the story suspects her, while the reader knows perfectly well from the first who she is. Virtue., nevertheless, triumphs in the end, as it is always certain to do in a bo ok of this kind, and d eserv- ing Olive is made happy. The story will, no doubt ...

... NOVEL 3 AND STORIES. as f -- or v | Jem Carruthers. The Extraordinary fill Adventures of an Ordinary Man. By 3d the Earl of Ellesmere (Charles Gran- oa. ville). (London: William Beinemann.) This is a pleasantly written book, but its literary merits are ...

... been deceived by de- - signing authors into imagiqnjig they had a long story before them, instead of which they were suddenly pulled uip, to find they were at the end of one story ayid the beginning of another-he is at pains to explain, we say, that he ...

... sufficiently attracted by her qualities of person aen nd character to pit her into some of his stories; eand now, when they come together in Italy, ahe ri gets the stories, and of course finds in them her he old love affair. A somewhat risky flirtation lop follows ...

... knowledge of Scotch, is not Iequal to his admiration; 'hut that is another I1 story. The Devil's Kitchen. By A. B. Louis. ILondon: Sands& Co.) r Never, surely, had a simple little story so pretentious and misleading a title as this. Miss Louis's book might ...