The appeal of Lord Gorell's new novel, "Rosamund," which © Mr. Murray will.publish shortly, is vastly different from that of its predecessor, the detective novel, "D.E.Q." Its theme is the conflict between spirituality of character and sheer materialism in an ill-arranged marriage. A torture ous y had to be trodden b: fore enlightenment and happiness finally ensued.
Mr. G. K. Chesterton continues the good work of giving the world its weekly supply of epigtums. Writing of that quaint modern production, ''free verse.' Mr. Chesterton says: "You might as well call sleeping in a ditch free architecture." And,—comparing Carlyle and Cobbett, he says of Carlyle: "The man who could be cheerful about Frederick the could be cheerful bout any-
Eve, loveliest of heroines, sat down before the piano in the musi¢c-roony on the night of her wedding—and disappeared." That is the plot, very shortly pub ofa liaison has written and wh ch will new story which Mrs. C. Wil
appear with the names of herself and her late htisband on the title-page. It is a romantic mystery and it has a romanti¢ title, "The Night of the Wedding."
When \Mr. Winston Churchill has finished his war book, he proposes to write a volume of more personal reminiscences. Mi. Winston Churchill's memories are sure to be interesting, and, despite his reputation for audacity, they will be more: discreet than some other people's. The future historian of the first quarter of the twentieth century will certainly not lack contemporary documents. The age of chivalry may still be with us, but the age of secrecy has certainly passed. Mrs. Asquith and Colonel Repingto\ have supplied us with intimate (and to seme of us rather terrible) pictures of the London of the war and just before the war, and their memoirs may have for posterity the historical value of Pepy's "Diary" without its human charm. And miny of the statesmen and the soldiers of the war—English, French, and German—h lost no time in writing their own stories end revealing the part that they themselves played. Perhiyps the multitude of up-to-date revelations will lead to obscurity rather than to definite knowledge. However this may be, the Georgian historian will not have to wait as the historian of last century has had to wait.
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