When a book critic suddenly turng novelist and starts creating. fictitious characters instead of, or as well as, criticizing the fetitious persons in the novels of others, he naturally draws upon himself an extra large glare of limelight, His brother critics are, perhaps, on the whole, inclined to feel more leniently towards this newly exposed tacit of his talent than are" hi brother authors, But, Mr. Howard Spring, the well-known book critic of the London "Evening Standard," in_giving to the public his first novel, "Shabby Tiger" (Collin 7s. 64.) has come through such an ordeal with little harm his reputation and a measure of wel novel races along at breakneck spe a truly modern manner, though it is constructed more in the old tradition than in the new and much of its atmosphere is closely akin to the vivid yet fantastic atmosphere of Dickens. His plot, full-blooded and adventurous, is set goer si ture ther and' mit thatthe author this novel and all the charlene's Rentioned in it are ental"
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