... The Extra Day. By Algernon Blackwood. (Mactnillan,) A masterpiece of mystic speculation the one consummate master of the supernatural not since the days of Poe the streak of genius a rush, a splendour madness ol dreams strange loveliness a delicious book a dainty masterpiece. These are just a blossom or two which the Press grows riotously for Mr. Blackwood's publishers every time they ...

... The Precipice. By Gonciiarov. Hodder and Stoughton.) Goncharov was one of those nineteenth-century Russians, the preface tells us, who gathered around the editor of a great Russian review, among whom were also Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. The Precipice is a characteristically Russian story, with a background significant of and sensitive to the subject. Of course, it is a story of ...

... [f^^LniPARYlOll^ERM 77/£ LADY OF THE LOVERS CANOVA'S VENUS.* Pauline The Preamble. In June 1793, and after much tribulation, Signora Letizia Bonaparte reached Marseilles. With her was a cheerful troop of out-at-elbows boys and down-at-heels girls. Second of the three down-at-heels was Pauline (Paulette, then); the first was Elisa, destined to be Princess of Lucca and Piombino and Grand Duchess ...

... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. THE RING IN JAPAN: OUR ALLIES AS WRESTLERS* Symbolism in the Ring. There is nothing picturesque about the boxing match as we know it. Britain takes its sport too seriously, is too engrossed in form and in results, to trouble about externals. Once upon a time, in the illuminated days of the Middle Ages, the Tournament was more than a mere test of knightly skill. There was ...

... Justice of the Peace. By Frederick Niven. (Nash.) Mr. Niven's new book has come about in the best of all ways that a book can. It is a story which he has been drawn into, and haunted by so greatly that I had to allow it to turn into a book and write it down. It is a long story, a family one, in nocent of sensation till the last page, and sparing of drama in the cruder sense, but no one, ...

... One Man's Way. Bv Evelyn Dickinson. (George Allen.) The love-affairs of a doctor occupy the oases of Miss Dickinson's story. Not a very remarkable person as doctoi or man, but human, and therefore as likely to be a prey to the hunter as a knight to the chaste lady. Romance would fare ill without the naughty young woman whose especial mission seems to be upsetting the apple-carts of the good ...

... . By Ivan Hodgkixsok. T Fisher Unwin.) Here is another of that interesting series-- the First Novel Library, of Mr. Fisher Unwin. It is as attractive and engaging as any of its pre ceding twenty volumes. Mr. Hodgkinson shows no strain after originality of plot, no desire after sensational moments, nor preciousness, nor prettiness of style, and he has succeeded with tenderness and distinction ...

... By Anton Tchekov. (Heinematm It would be hard to imagine any motive more expressive of the strangenesses of life in mighty Russia than that which inspires the first of these stories, The Steppe. The whole long narrative is just the account of a little boy making his first journey to a public school. His mother with ambitions towards refinement and education, and himself, in the imminence of ...

... When R. G. Came to London. R. G. Knowles discovered London, by way of Liverpool, on the 8th of June, 1891; and London discovered him, by way of the Trocadero, on the 13th. In the bill also on that momentous date were, among others, George Beauchamp and Charles Chaplin, descriptive singer and father of Charlie Chaplin of film fame. R. G.'s number went up, and he walked on. His first few ...

... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. WONDERFUL WORD PICTURES OF RUSSIA* HOW may the transition be expressed from the crudities of the evening newspaper to an afternoon with this mild, thoughtful traveller? It is like leaving the cafe for the fresh air of the dark street and a star or two overhead; it is like exchanging the once noisy brilliance of the town for that star or two always overhead, but only now ...

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... . By A. Neil Lyons. The Bodley Head.) Clara had been the author's nurse, and her sympathetic personality was early removed from his nursery on a charge of theft. She liked pretty things, and she liked treating folks, so the cuckoo-clock found in her trunk, and the half-crowns irremediably lost were brought up against her. She went off to prison with great philosophy, blow ing a kiss to her ...