"The Yellow Dragon," by Arthur Mills, (Hutchinson, 7s. 6d.) is a kaleidoscopic view of life in Hongkong and on the China const. The characters are numerous, including subalterns, Chinese, ladies of. the upper and the under world, and an Trish adventurer with an Italian title, and the incidents are full of life and excitement. A capital yarn, written with great verve and considerable inventive force.
"Dog Training' by Amateurs," by Sharpe (Country Life, 20, Tavi fock Street, Covent Garden, W. C. 2 price 7s, Gd. net), has the gre point in its favour that it insists on Kindness, with firmness, in all the the whole process of training a puppy, in easy stages, which, if fol-Towed by a person of average inteligence, and with the necessary patience, will result in turning out what every sportsman craves his shooting expeditions—a highly-trained dog. 'The book is welt il Tustrated by numerous. photographs of the young dogs white under tuition, and should be a great help and incentive to owners of young spaniels, retrievers, and, in fact, any dog used for following' the gun, to undertake their own training, thus saving unnecessary expense, The Apparatus needful is so simple that the training may be carried on while out for a country ramble, Miss Diana Patrick, one of the "Young Hopefuls" among our women novelists, has a new story coming along with the title "Dreaming Spires." She has written it at her
by birth she belongs to Keighley, in pleasant "hoi the Thames, but Yorkshire. So does her life-long friend, Mr, Harry Wall, the famous-in-a-night author of "Havoc," the war play which has drawn everybody to the Haymarket Theatre, Another distinguished native of Keighley is Mr. Gordon Bottomle; the poet, whom we know best as the writer of that fine drama in verse, Swift's remark? that "A Newgate Pastoral might make an odd, pretty sort of thing" was the origin of Gay's "Beggars? Opera." Similarly a hint from Pope produced his "Shopherd's Week," of which Mr. Blackwell, of Oxford, is publishing an exact reprint, with facsimiles of the illustrations." The book consists of a most amusing series of mock pastorals, one for each day of the working week. Tu these Gay obtains. ridiculous effects by describing the actual life of the English rustic in the time of Queen Anna. He does s0 with all the circumstance of the conventional pastoral poem, as it has been, from Virgil to Ambrose Philips.
The biography f the late Ambassador Page Was one of the most uceesstul books of the sort that we have had fog a long time. In Eng-Jand it has sold nearly 60,000 copies, and in America the sale has been even greater. Mr. Burton Hendrick, Page's biographer, is now engaged on another book dealing with him as Journalist, an editor, a publisher, fand an educator. Te will also des-tribe Page's remarkable influence reconciler of the North and South, following the breach cat The book will-be a missionary wont to South Africa. He was visionary who thought to prove the equality of all men before God. Therefore he married an aboriginal woman, Sarah Gertrude Millin cal their half-caste descendants "God's Step-Children" (Constable, 7s. 6d.). She traces the results of this mixed marriage through four generations. This is a thoughtful, straightforward story of considerable human and historic interest. Through th tragic problem of mixed blood the author spreads before you the panorama of South Africa and peoples it with vividly-realized characters.
Mr. W. L, Gedrge, who is now a director of the old publishing house of. Chapman and" Hall, has just finished another novel. Tt is called "The Triumph of Gallio," and it will be. published early in September. By-and-by we shall get a different ook from Mr. George, namely, a popular history of woman's struggle and progress all down the ages. is appearing serially in the "Fortnight Review," so that it is possible for readers gradually to accustom themselves to Mr. George as historical. student.
Gleams of light' on history come out in the most unexpected ways. Often by the casual discovery of some old bundle of letters. That explains the appearance of a book entitled, The Secret of the Coup a'Btat." which the: Constables announes, It is a hitherto unpublishin: the _y¢ Prince Louis Napoleon, Comte de Morny, Comte de Flahault "and others. It has been edited by the. Earl of Kerry, who is m good student of French history Mr, Philip Guedal book of essays is just out, contributes one to this volume.
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