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BOOKS IN BRIEF 



FICTION. 



A Tartar's Love. By G. Ystridde 

 Orshanski. (Long.) 

 A story well woith reading by all 

 who wish to get some insight 

 into Russian life. The events 

 take place in South Russia, on 

 the borders of the Black Sea, 

 where Tartar, Russian, Turk, and 

 many other nationalities freely 

 intermingle. 



Cheerful Craft. By R. Andom. 

 (Stanley Paul.) 

 This is a change from the kind 

 of book that we are used to get- 

 ting from Mr. Andom, and 

 scarcely a change for the bettei-. 

 The tale is exciting and full 

 of incident, fmt more im- 

 possible than most tales of 

 adventure. It tells of a clerk 

 who is cast awav on an island 

 with the son of rich parents. 

 The latter goes mad, and on re- 

 turning to England the clerk im- 

 personates liim and builds up a 

 succecssful career by his impostuie. 

 One misses the broad and farci- 

 cal humour of Mr. Andom's other 

 stories. 



The StralVini, Saint. By Rafael 

 Sabatini. (Stanley Paul.) 

 A powerful romance, describing 

 an Italian youth vowed by his 

 mother to a monastic life in 

 gratitude for the deliverance of 

 his father from a terrible peril. 

 Tiie picture of the great lengths 

 to whch a woman can go when 

 bigotry has taken hold of her is 

 strongly drawn, and the irony 

 of a vow given because of a hus- 

 band's deliverance, the carrying 

 out of which separated them in 

 soul and spirit, is a novel thing. 

 As always, the descriptions of 

 people and country are capital. 



The I'earl Stringer. By Peggy 

 Webling. (Methuen.) 

 One of the most charming of tliis 

 author's books. It is refi-eshing 

 to read of the quiet, gentle life 

 of Nannie, the Pearl Stringer, 

 an occupation of which .so littli' 

 is known. Her love poem, tliongli 

 it has not a con\-entio)inl ending, 

 is beautiful, and of the charac- 

 ters who cii'cle round her, each 

 one possesses an individuality 

 which will give a longer life than 

 usual to this well-told .story. 



The De.stini/ of Clainle. By Mav 

 Wynne. (Stanley Paul.) 

 The heroine of this capital his- 

 torical story refuses to be placed 

 in a convent again.st her wish, 

 and escapes from home in the 

 dress of a page. Her arrival at 



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