The appeatunee of an additional six volumes of the charming Tusi tala Edition (William Heinemann, Tal.) of the works of R. L. Steven on, inehudes an interesting volume fof fragments, Stevenson, we are told, had never appeared so well az during) the months preceding his auth; there was about him a strange sevenity and a curious de tachment from the past which enabled hin to judge himeelf and his Work with alniost scientific disinteriitedness. Here is n curiously candid piece of self-criticism uttered in "Yam not a man of any unusual talent, Lloyd; I started out with! very moderate abilities; my sue-cess has been due to my really remarkable industry—to developing what I had in me to the extreme limit, When a man begins: to sharpen one faculty, and keeps: on sharpening it with tireless perneveranee, he can achieve wonders. Everybody knows it; it's a com mon place; and yet how rare at is, to find anybody' doing it—I mean to the uttermost as I did. What sen ins 1 had was Zor work! elope with Oldham, captures her, conveys her to his palace, and in Gne time carries out the native punishment for an adultress by hai Ing her trampled to death by ele-Phants. That, briefly, is the story that is quite Tegitimate. Her Premer, 7s. 6d. net), which Miss Pearl Weymouth chooses to tell with an emphasis on the effect of horror that is quite legitimate. Her Preface anticipating criticism on the score of its incredibility is beside the mark, and injudi A new bock on Cancer: "How it is] caused and how it can be prevented" by Mr, Ellis Barker, is to be published by Mr, John Murray at the end of this month. The author is not 'a medical man; hitherto his chief claim to recognition has been: through his able volumes on Economies and International Politics, but, as he explains in his Preface, the subject of cancer has long interested him. He thinks that the cause of cancer might possibly be found in a direction which has been somewhat overlooked. The book has the support of Sir Arbuthnot Lane, Bart., and other eminent medical men, bat it is addressed pri ally to the general public.
'There are no clu' pages in "Rust Murden" by Jermyn March (Burs and Blackett, 7. 4d.), Tt closely packed with exciting ority asa Lyceum drama, full of mystery as a Ruritanian romance, Country-house life is vividly portrayed, and there is capital elf dialogue; the story, however, is complicated urd not very eonvines ing. terary Paris 14 still chuckling over the iinazing hoax played on tone of the officials of the Comédie Frangaise by a M. Bourgeois. More or lev embroidered narratives of the alfoir have been actually happened, according: to the ief and sober narrative Plorte Brisson, the dramatic critic the Temps," was this, M. Bougeois own work: it is, in fact, one of the nellom performed and less known plays of Corneille, One of the ex: ports whose special business it is to read new plays for the seat French national theatre considered "Ayéslas," and returned it to My Bourgeois, its wuppoxed author, th the intimation that it was not up to the standard of the Comédie Francaise. M. Bourgeois lost time in comniunieating the success of his joke to the press; and now the victimised official is demanding} that the author of the trick shall be prosecuted, Apparently none of the oh wary noticer of Sit Morsiver Dia ins the) any mention of an related "some youre ago tuldress to the Seckty ut Arts. heine that when he wns Minister at Teheran the Omar Rhayyim. Sec ty induced him to ask the Shah to helve orders that Omar's tomb at shaptir shoul be Fettred, Nasi falsDin "Tenn Back in his big chair find Taughed loudly" on hear-fine the request, "Do you mean to tall tne" anid he, "that there ten foci' in. Lenion. named efter Gmar Khayyam? Why, he "has hoon" dead a thousand year That ie all the mare reason," plea cal Sir Mortimer, for deine honour This opinion" was not shaved by Nasiveed-Din. He de. lived emphatically that he would hot order the tome to be restore. "Ne possess man helter pects than Omar Khayyam, Indeed, aegvelt and then he stopped.
Mr, Huxel Exnhey one supposes, invented "The: ahurder Chub! are ely Ts. Gab net) to ave unity to long series of mysteries and 13 brings auiekness into narration. The machinery adequately. nerves its Burpee! he excess ave. fae these Secret Service agents, dsguis dnd furioan and are helped out
od, trvesmen "an sours, Dractising detection with. pre {itr Byans, at Joost, bolieses ce-operation of Press and police.) But is thiserapidity-all gain?" readers delight in chewing the of ensation, The fanatical Rajah of Kohajulia, gaming under a strange obligation to Major Hugh Garfield, makes the Englishnian's honour his own, and when Vivienne, Hugh's. wife, would
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