... Criticisms in Cameo. PAVLOVA AT COVENT GARDEN. SHE blew on to the vast stage like a bit of down floating on a summer wind. How can I explain the welcome, the enthusiasm, the thunderous applause of greeting? Was it the enchantment of memory or the delicious thrill of anticipation? It was both, and yet more, it was the outburst of sudden joy that springs when Beauty teases us out of Care and ...

... . . By Joseph Gollomb. (Long 7s. 6d.) (Long 7s. 6d.j The London particular has often done duty as the cloak of crime. Here it is worked in an unusually creepy fashion and is made almost a character in the story. There are no fewer than three men ot blood one a deaf and dumb Hercules all intent on their par ticular villainy and carefully calculating the onset ot the atmospheric curtain which ...

... . By Floyd Dell. (John Lane 7s. bd.) Janet March came of an American family founded by a very strait-laced person. But she was not strait-laced herself in fact, she went in for most surprising adventures in love, and made no bones about telling them to the world. She and Roger Leland did not at first think marriage lines necessary to their happiness, and even in their unity they were ...

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... . By Richard Dehan. (But- rerwortn /s. oq.j Another exposure of the disastrous effects of a long-drawn-out suit in Chancery. The hero married beneath him, and during the legal complication took to drink, and ill- used his wife and her son. They left him and came to London the romantic London of the old school of novel and suffered many things there. The hero, although ruined by the law, is no ...

... . . By Helen Moeller. (Arrowsmith 7s. 6d.) Moeller. (Arrowsmith 7s. 6d.) What has possessed our novelists that so many of them in one month have taken the marriage of black with white as their sub ject We have already had South African and South Sea Island episodes. Here is yet another about New Guinea this time. This is rather a tense complication. A ne'er-do-well exile is visited by his aunt ...

... THE SHAME DANCE. By Wilbur Daniel Steele. (Fisher Unwin 7s. 6d.) THE SHAME DANCE. By Wilbur Daniel Steele. (Fisher Unwin 7s. 6d.) the title mignt lead anyone wno mows the folk-lore of the fisher folk of North- Eastern Scotland to think that this book might have its scene laid there for at fisher weddings there used to be a curious ceremony called the shame dance. But Mr. Steele has given us ...

... . . By Mary Geary Grant. (Stanley Paul 7s. 6d.) (Stanley Paul 7s. 6d.J A picture of the lighter life of New York, where Doreen, the heroine, fresh from a convent, has experiences that are anything but conventual, unless we accept the views of Boccaccio on nunnery conduct. Doreen had seen her dead mother in a vision, and had been assured by that departed lady that knowledge is invisible wings ...

... . . By John E. Gurdon. (Chapman and Dodd 7s. 6d.l (Chapman and Dodd 7s. 6d.) Stories of werwolves are safe for thrills, and Mr. Gurdon deals them out with both hands. They come all the more creepily that the period of the novel is the present day, and not any fictitious age of romance. The villain had the hardihood to keep a tame werwolf, who fell in love with a young man and begged her master ...

... . . By George Barr McCutcheon. (Harrap 7s. 6d.) (Harrap 7s. 6d.) O. O. is a sort of American Harry Bertram, in Guy Mannering, inasmuch as he had his fortune told on the day of his birth, and the prognostication caused his friends not a little anxiety, for dreadful things were said to be in store for him. Thirty was the fatal age. Till then he bore a charmed life, even in the war, and he was ...

... . By Sir Rabindranath Tagore. (Macmiilan 7s. bd.) Gourmohan Babu is the most extraor dinary of Indian agitators. The adopted son of a Hindu family, he was really an Irishman, but was unaware of that fact probably the only Irishman ever so favoured, or insulted, by fortune. Is this another injustice to Ireland But Gora, as he was called, because he was white, and not from any contraction of an ...

... . . By Cecil H. Bulli- vant. (Long 7s. 6d.) (Long 7s. 6d.) A variant of the detective story. Every thing is revealed at the beginning, and the interest centres on the investigator's methods. As usual, Scotland Yard is represented as miraculously stupid, and its stupidity is incarnate in Sir Kenneth Moseley, who has had a grudge at Bell since they were at Cambridge together. As detective tales ...