Eden Phillpotts. (Murray's Imperial Library). In this story Eden Phillpotts returns to D: moor for his scenes and characters, and he has produced a fascinating study. He delights in the minute analysis of nature and human nature, describing the one with an artist's appreciation and enthusiasm, and dissecting the characters of hiv peasant people with the coolness and preci-cly per characters are all of humble origin and station, but, as one would expect, the author is not dependent upon melodramatic tricks for catching the reader's interest in them. The passions and prejudices, and the struggle, of common daily life made the foundation for a of absorbing interest.
"John Stuart By Robert Vansittert. (Murray's Colonial Library).
This is a clever historical novel, in the form of @ personal narrative. The hero, who claims to be the natural son of Charles LI, fled from London to the Hague in 1685, and there mingled with many needy ad-_ venturers. His astonishing career is described with a pleasant and engaging sense of intimacy, and with
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