'Review of Eevii ws, 1/10/ li 



BOOKS AY BRIEF. 



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Crowds. By Stanley Leo. (Methuen.) 



These essays of Mr. Lee on modern con- 

 ditions have so impressed one of his Ameri- 

 can readers, a stranger to the author, that 

 he has spent some thousands of dollars in 

 advertising tlte merits of the volume. The 

 note upon which the hook starts is, the 

 hurrying crowd uncertain where it is going, 

 and the hurrying machines not always tak- 

 ing the people to their God. Mr. Lee gives 

 us his theory of the world, shows us that 

 men, generally speaking, desire to he good, 

 though not always understanding how to 

 set about it ; tells us why Alfred Nobel left 

 the prize-money ; and tells us that if he 

 were an inspired millionaire the first thing 

 he would do would be to supply the funds 

 and find the men who should take up what 

 Lord Grey knows about employers, and 

 wliat Frederick Taylor knows about the 

 Avorkmen, and, putting their ideals into 

 practice, let all who live see and know how 

 such co-operation works. Mr. Lee tells us 

 that he has used his 500 pages to expound 

 the golden rule. It is done in such whimsi- 

 cal fashion that the reader is not always 

 sure of the way he is going ; but the road 

 is not a dull one, at all events. 



O'Higgins of Chile. By .1. J. Mel van. 



(Century Press, 5 - net.) 



The history of the man who helped Chile 

 and Peru to throw off the yoke of Spain. 

 It is embellished with various photographic 

 illustrations, and though without pretence 

 to literary style, the bluff manner of its 

 sailor compiler is not unpleasing. 



The Winning of Gwenora. By Edith C. 

 Kenyon. (Holden and Hardingham, 

 3 6.) 

 This story of Welsh life is quaintly in- 

 terestii g, though there is a little suspicion 

 of sweetness too long drawn out. Gwenora 

 is the daughter of a Welsh clergyman, who 

 is represented as being all that a parish 

 pastm- should be in the way of paying visits 

 and Looking after his flock. Ee 1- pictured 

 as benevolent and white-headed, with a 

 sweet voice which charms and comforts all 

 who are in trouble. Unhappily, he di 

 not appear to think his own children need 

 any help or comfort, so poor Gwei 

 the same sort of slave her mother was be- 

 fore her. When she came of marriageable 

 age her father forces her into a betrothal 

 with the avaricious and mean old squire oi 

 the village, and Gwenora's reason for as- 

 senting is that of the dutiful, devoted sister 

 and daughter which is required oi the girl 

 pictured here, for her father considers it is 

 a great pity for a woman to be strong- 

 minded. In the end, Gwenora iv ins and is 

 won by her true lover. 



Casserley's Wife. By Esther Miller. (Paul, 

 3/6.) 

 in attractive novel based upon a queer 

 imbroglio. The hero had to leave bh< girl 

 to whom he was engaged in order to seek 

 his fortune. Dropping, unexpectedly into 

 a peerage and £30,000 a year, tie returns 

 to marry the girl whom he has nof 11 



for seven years; but, meanwhile, his f\ance\ 

 has married, and Casserley, expecting to 

 meet her, greets a younger sister who is 

 actly what Monica was when he left her. 

 He marries without finding out his mis- 

 take; hence many difficulties, but a satis- 

 factory ending. 



Ffolliots of Eedmarley. By L. Allen 

 Barker. (John Murray. 1 



Most amusing incidents in a family of 

 which the father is an egoist and so strict 

 that his children, from restrained vitality, 

 arc constantly getting into mischief in I 

 village mischief mostly good-naturedly 

 forgiven by the inhabitants. The chief 

 character is a nervous young fellow \\ 

 lias become the Liberal M.P., though his 

 father was a tradesman in a neighbouring 

 village. His story adds the pathos which 

 balances the mischief of the other young 

 people. Amongst the Ffollioi practical 

 jokes is the impersonation by one of the 

 boys of a Suffragette. 



Smith/ Married. By Dorothea Conyers. 

 1 Methuen, 3 6.) 

 A sequel to "The Strayings of Sandy." in 

 which he and his wife play then parts in 

 a comical situation. They are [eft trust.. - 

 to a young man and woman, the one High 

 Church, the other a Dissenter, both count- 

 ing that anything to do with a racing 

 stable is anathema, and who are. by the 

 will of a lacing man. compelled to marry 

 or forfeit their large legacies, and have 

 also to keep the racing stud of the testator 

 going. Sandy takes his wards to Ireland 

 with him, and he would be queer indeed 

 who did not find food for laughter in al- 

 most every chapter of the book. 



Hunt the Slipper. Bv Oliver Mados Hueffer 

 (Jane Wardle). 1 Stanley Paul. 3 6.) 



A wonderful phantasmagoria of appearing 

 and disappearing personages introduced in 

 the course of Sir Edward Fanhope's search 

 for his grand-daughter. Various people 

 take up the story in turn, and. whether 

 recounted by typist, thief, singer, 

 country gentleman, it is told with a verve 

 and gusto which make the hook a capital 

 ipanion when (lis: rad ion is needi d. 



Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu. By Sax 

 Etohmer. i Metl u n, 3 6. i 

 An enthralling mystery story which lias al- 

 ready appea n d in m igazine form. The 

 Chinese doctor is an inf< rnal maniac, v. h< 



promote 1 he interest-, of his own 



niry by compassing the deaths oi all 

 opposed to her, n politicians or other- 



wise. His woman slave brightens the story 

 with a love interest. 



■ Evi . Bv Maj Edginton. 1 I! od- 

 der. 3 6.) 



Curiosity is, of course, the terrible sin. 



S o 'pool- Eve, alias Ellen Kl unartin. 



roads a lei ter no1 intended for her. and 



in so doing breaks a promise and tells a lie 



a stepping-stone for innumerable adven- 



