SOME GOOD STORIES FROM NEW BOOKS
... .£.60,000 for a Seat Less than a century ago seats in Parliament were regularly bought and sold. Flood, the Irish politician, purchased a seat in the English House of ...
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SOME GOOD STORIES FROM RECENT BOOKS: The Tyrant in the Field
... SOME GOOD STORIES FROM RECENT BOOKS The Tyrant in the Field There have been few commanders so tyrannous as Lopez, the dictator of Paraguay when, in the war of 1865-70, it fought single-handed the neig ...
SOME BOOKS ON ART: French Art
... SOME BOOKS ON ART French Art Stories of the French Artists, from Clouet to Delacroix, is the title of a volume of short critical biographies by Mr. P. M. Turner and Mr. C. H. Collins Baker, handsome ...
STORIES FROM NEW BOOKS: A Story of Skulls
... STORIES FROM NEW BOOKS A Story of Skulls One of Sir J. H. Rivett-Carnac's stories in Many Memories (Blackwood) illustrates the perils of anthro pological research in far countries. A certain Chief C ...
THREE NEW NOVELS
... The Rose of Dauphiny One is sometimes tempted to believe that French history was expressly made for novelists. It is, at any rate, certain that Mr. Philip L. Stevenson is among the no ...
STORIES from NEW BOOKS: The Nautical Idiom
... STORIES from NEW BOOKS The N&utical Idiom In Glimpses of East Africa (John Long) Mrs. Ethel Younghusband tells an amusing story of a venerable Parsi who was on board a big liner going to England. So ...
GOOD STORIES FROM SOME BOOKS OF THE DAY
... It was a perilous honour to be a tradesman to the Court of Philip II of Spain. His son, Don Carlos (of whose eccentricities Dr. A. S. Rappoport tells in his Ma ...
STORIES FROM NEW BOOKS: How Eugénie Became Empress
... STORIES FROM NEW BQQKsj How Eugenic Became Empress The story of how Napoleon III came to marry the Empress Eugénie is told by Mr. Oscar Browning in his Memories of Sixty Years (Lane). The authority ...
SOME NEW NOVELS: The Devourers
... SOME NEW NOVELS The Devourers A very notable new novel indeed is this, written by Mrs. A. vivanti Chartres, published by Heinemann, and dedicated To my Wonder-child Vivien, to read when she has Won ...
NEW NOVELS and STORIES: None Other Gods
... NEW NOVELS and STORIES None Other Gods Father Robert Hugh Benson's public, we take it, is one that demands an exceedingly strong motive, with a direct bearing upon life's larger mysteries, set in a ...
THE FASCINATION OF CHAINS: SOME IRISH PLAYS
... Miss Elizabeth Baker has performed a remarkable feat in writing Chains, which was produced at the Repertory Theatre last week, both as regards psycholog ...
SOME NEW NOVELS: Vera of the Strong Heart
... SOME NEW NOVELS Vera of the Strong Heart'1 It may be rash to say of any problem of human nature that it has waited till to-day for statement. Yet we cannot call to mind, in all previous fiction, the ...