LAND AND W A T Ji R 
December i8, 1915. 
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tivc mother i* o!...'.her piece of clover drawing. The book is 
one of great promise, and may be recommended as both 
original and attractive. 
" Letlen of Captain Enftlehen I.utyens." By Sir I.ees Knowles 
Birt. (John I.ane.) 10s. 6d. net. 
Captain Knowles spent fourteen months as orderly 
officer at St. Helena during the tinal phase of Napoleon's 
captivity there, and this reproduction of his official reports 
mirrors "the last days of the great "conqueror. Tull reason for 
such an addition to the great mass of Napoleonic literature 
is provided in the new view that may be obtained from these 
letters ; the very monotony of the tifcthat they describe is 
indicative of the greatness "of the tragedy that Lutyens wit- 
nessed, and official brevity and conciseness emphasise the 
story that the letters tell." The narrative is, to those who 
reail the letters carefully, different in many ways from tlie 
biassed stories of Lowe, Hathurst, and Reade, stories told so 
often and from so many points of view that it is difficult to 
get at the truth in them. 
The manner in which the letters have been edited en- 
hances the value of the collection, and tliis volume should 
go far to increase the reputation which its author won with his 
book on Minden and the Seven Years' War. Tliis must rank 
as a serious and important contribution to the study of the 
tragedy of St. Helena. The fine reproductions in colour of 
a niinature of Napoleon, of a drawing of Longwood, and other 
subjects, add to the interest of the volume. 
" When Pan Pipes." By Mary Thornton. (Sampson Low and 
Co.) 6s. 
In spite of a commonplace plot, and situations verging 
on the melodramatic, this simply told story is full of interest. 
It consists mainly of the adventures of one Jerry Dell on his 
way to fame and" fortune, and of the manner in which he met 
his Marj', and the story of his early days at the farm, told 
with rare sympathy and skill, will tempt readers on to find 
out the rest of liis history. 
The period is that of William IV. and Victoria's accession ; 
the atmosphere is fresh and clean as a spring morning, and, 
for all its staginess of plot, the book certainly merits the 
attention of lovers of romantic literature. Among a host 
of interesting minor characters Betty, foil to Mary the heroine, 
is a distinct creation on the author's part. Though, at times. 
the long arm of coincidence is strained in the course of the 
story, it remains a work of real merit, and should win a large 
circle of readers. 
" The Way of Martha and the Way of Mary." By Stephen Crabam. 
(Macmillan and Co() 7s. net. 
A certain pretentiousness mars this work, and pervades 
the author's statements. " In order to understand it, even in 
a small way, it is necessary to read the whole of it, and perhaps 
re-read it," he says in his preface. The obvious retort is that 
good writing is sufficiently simple for imderstanding at a first 
■ reading. Further, he confesses that " all that is vital in 
Part I. of this book," was compressed into a single evening's 
lecture, which says very httle for the vitality of the first 
hundred pages. 
Setting these things aside, there is much in the book to 
attract, though it is by no means so great a work as its author 
evidently thinks. It is Russia of yesterday, Russia of just- 
before-the-war, from the inside, with a good deal of moralising 
and many truisms thrown in. The difference between the 
Russian and the Western conceptions of Christianity is well 
defined. " Instead of belief in the future, belief in an eternal 
: present. . . . Instead of Time understood as a passage 
or corridor, Time as a labyrinth." Over this latter point the 
author is rather confusing ; he sees Russia as a negation of 
order, which is rather a hard saying for Western minds. At 
times the conception of "freedom" outHned here is mere 
anarcliy. 
The book is stimulating rather than enlightening. The 
best of it is with " Martha" rather than with " Mary," and 
this especially in the little scraps of Russian legend that it 
contains, and in the pictures of everyday life in Russia. With 
the changes tliat the war must bring to Russia, the wakening 
of the people and the necessary assimilation of Western ideas, 
much that is written in this work will stand as typical of a 
past age, though it concerns mere yesterdays. It may be 
summed up as a loosely constructed work of stimulating 
contradictions, and the paradox is illustrative of the book. 
By F. Tennyson Jesse. (Heinemann.) 
because it is a mystcrs, but tne la^i 4.., i^j, ship 
concerning the captain -1- f-^.f ^^^^ \°, save her is Ih^ 
and then ^«ugl>t >ytv.ther and h.s cre^^^ 
most dramatic and the l^^^^*' ''^J.f jf, t"J 'i°" t of fulfilment of 
While, m this Y;""!'j,i:'\ .,,' yet continuance of 
the promise in the Mih) 1' «^ ^'"; > , ^^^^ jii^g 
that promise, and such woik a^ to '^•^'^ J^^ """. .f; f ^^e 
Tennyson Jesse will yet produce notable fi^Uo" ot the 
-.mlvtir tvoe-wheri such emotions as aic poitravea in ,1 
Zflnl'lToJhl^c been reduced to their true proportions 
in her work. 
"Bath and Bristol." By Uura A. ilapperfield and Stanley Mutton. 
(A. and C. Black.) 7s. 6d. net. 
Mr. Hutton's descriptive te.xt on Bath and Bristol forms 
more than a supplement or comment to the P>^-t"'"es by Ms. 
Happerfield. pictures which are in accordance \vith I lie 
traction of the " colour series " in which the publishers have 
described and pictured many lands and many British <l«>ti cts 
Here is the history of Bath, an outline of its literary and otl, er 
associations, and" here, too, is the story of Bristol and its 
mariners, well told-especially with regard to the great figures 
of tlie Elizabethan age who were associated with the western 
''"' Art and the drama, characteristics of architectiire, all 
find a place in the volume, while such names as those o 
Southey, Dickens, Coleridge, and "Thomas Ciiatterton, ot 
the city of Bristol "—to mention a few at random, are given 
more than brief mention. While, from the artistic point ot 
view, the colour plates that illustrate the work leave little to 
be desired, the literary character of the book is such that it vydl 
probably become one of the most popular of l^Iessrs. Black s 
series of descriptive colour books. 
The author has taken no local and parochial survey, but 
has made his work of general interest ; it is a book to tead 
and a book to keep. 
" The Way They Have in the Army." By Thomas O'Toole. (John 
Lane.) Cloth, 2s. net. Paper, Is. net. 
The author has compiled a breezy, interesting account o. 
the " shop " of the Army, obviously with inside knowledge of a 
soldier's ways. Especially interesting is the chapter devoted 
to " Tommy's private language," whicli describes and explains 
such terms as " jankers," " mush," " chancing his arm," and 
other unintelligible words and phrases as far at the average 
civilian is concerned. It is a book of the ways of the old Army, 
the original Expeditionary Force, and probably it does not 
apply fully to the New Armies of to-day, in so far as the 
habits of the rank and file are concerned. 
Since, also, different battalions and regiments have 
different methods of expression, the book contains some hints 
and descriptions that not all soldiers will recognise, but it is 
fairly comprehensive, nevertheless. The autlior has mercifully 
spared us some statements— notably among the list of words to 
the various bugle and trumpet calls, but the soldier will read 
between the lines in these cases. 
" The SS. Glory." By Frederick Niven. (Heinemann.) 3s. 6d. 
net. 
The S.S. Glory was a cattle boat conveying a live cargo 
across to Liverpool, and the " push " of hard characters who 
shipped as hands to tend the cattle on the voyage form the 
characters of tlie story. We are introduced to them over the 
business of signing on, and we take leave of them at the 
Mersey docks, having come to know most of them and to 
like the majority. 
Mike, boss of the upper deck crowd, is an enlightened 
Irishman who has gained education in the wider sense by 
tramping the world, and he commands our respect. Michael 
and Coclcney, drunk or sober, command our interest, as indeed 
do the rest of the " push." The chief merit of the book is its 
intense reality ; the voyage is described as Kipling might 
have described it, save that at a first glance it is oljviously 
not Kipling— it is the life of the cattlemen, described by one 
who has lived it, and also one who had the insight to character 
which could make such life worth describing. 
The reek of the cattle and of the sea. well defined though 
it is, is but a side issue— it is the men who count, and to such 
an extent as to make of this a most arresting book. 
" BeiSgars on Horseback." 
6s. 
A little of the sense of things mystical that characterises 
Mr. Algernon Blackwood's work, a large sense of the divinity 
attaching to motherhood, and a fine appreciation of dramatic 
values, combine to raise the majority of these stories 
above the avcr.age level of cuiTcnt fiction. The earlier 
Mr. Arthur Rackham's Christmas book this year is 
Dickens' A Chnslmas Carol. The coloured drawings and many 
black and white illustrations with which Mr. Rackham has 
illustrated the story are in his best style and admirably reflect 
the spirit of the master. Two editions of the book are pub- 
lished by Mr. Heinemann. an ordinary one at 6s. net, and a 
large paper edition limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed 
by tlie artist, at two guineas. 
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