Arthur Rackham.—William Heinemann, London.
Tu a Proem Mr. Austin Dobson sap-pil the purport of thin dlightfl volume.
Enchanting Alice Black-and-white Has made your deeds perennial And naught sare Chlor and old Can sao you now from Tenniel None"
But still you are a type, and based In Truth, like Lear and Hamlet that the reader cannot complain of a men, and had threatened to cease the single dull moment. The wealth of n negotiations if this contention were not incident precludes the details of character sketching, but the part of Constantine Leaf is well portrayed, and one feels a strong sense of satisfaction on finding that he is able to quit his former life without adding to the sam total of his offences against the Companies Act, to say nothing of the better known criminal law. Temptations obviously come to " millionsire, from which less prosperous mortals sre happily free; and, therefore, one admires the resourcefulness that enables Leaf to outwit his allowed. Count Iavoleky, therefore, gave way on several points, bat the " Novoe Vremya" complains bitterly that such surrenders are interpreted by the Japanese as concessions not to argument but to fear. It says further that this " Orange book" famishes us with a key to the Japanese national psychology. Concessions of any kind are invariably mistaken by the Japanese for pusillanimity.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.