What Not Part 20

IMPOSSIBLE PEOPLE. By Mrs. GEORGE WEMYSS.

"It is set in a captivating way among village folk drawn from life, treated with humour and sympathy, and decorated profusely with the talk and doings of real and interesting children." _Manchester Guardian._

THE STARRY POOL and Other Tales. By STEPHEN G. TALLENTS.

"It belongs to the cla.s.s of literature which gives an intimate picture of the writer himself, who, in this particular case, endears himself to the reader by his humour, which is never cynical, and by his zest for the simple, which is never forced."--_Westminster Gazette._

THE WANDERERS. By MARY JOHNSTON.

"A large theme of absorbing and growing interest is treated with great imaginative and pictorial power; and the writer's faith and enthusiasm, as well as her knowledge and her skilful handicraft, are manifest."--_Scotsman._

REMNANTS. By DESMOND MACCARTHY.

"It has its own clear point of view. It reveals an engaging personality, and its contents, though dealing with subjects as diverse as Samuel Butler, Lord George Sanger, Meredith, Dan Leno, Voltaire and Bostock's Menagerie, are all of a piece. That is, it is a real book of essays."--_The Bookman._

BEYOND THE RHINE. Memories of Art and Life in Germany before the War. By MARC HENRY.

"M. Henry discourses most entertainingly on many subjects of German social life, and his book may be cordially recommended to those among us who seek for enlightenment on the mentality of our enemies."--_Scotsman._

TRIVIA. By LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH.

"It is a piece of personal good luck to have read it. One goes in and out of one's hall door with a delicious sense of possessing a secret. It increases one's confidence in the world. If a book like this can be written, there is, we feel, hope for the future."--_The Athenaeum._

THE LAST OF THE ROMANOFS. By CHARLES RIVET (Petrograd Correspondent of the "Temps").

"'The Last of the Romanofs' can be recommended to one desirous of understanding what has actually happened in Russia and what caused it to happen."--_Globe._

ON THE EDGE OF THE WAR ZONE. By MILDRED ALDRICH, Author of "A Hilltop on the Marne."

"They give a picture of peace in the midst of war that is both fascinating and strange ... as an intimate sketch of one corner of the world-war, viewed at close quarters over the garden-hedge, these little books will have earned for themselves a place apart."--_Punch._

THE POT BOILS. A Novel. By M. STORM JAMESON.

In "The Pot Boils" the author has written a vivid and original study of the careers and the love-story of a modern young man and woman whom we first encounter as students at the same Northern University. Of life in this Northern University the author gives a realistic account, and equally realistic and entertaining is the description of the world of social reformers, feminists, journalists, vers-libristes in London, to which the scene is s.h.i.+fted later. It is a brilliant provocative book which will appeal to all those who are interested in appraising the worth and promise of modern movements and ideals.

THE s.h.i.+P OF DEATH. A Romance of the World-War. By EDWARD STILGEBAUER, Author of "Love's Inferno."

In "The s.h.i.+p of Death," Dr. Stilgebauer has written a romance which depicts in all its horror the havoc wrought by war upon human relations.h.i.+ps and values outside the actual sphere of the battle-field.

The instrument of disaster is Captain Stirn, the captain of the submarine which torpedoes the 'Lusitania,' styled here the 'Gigantic.'

The first part of the book depicts the company on board, when the first premonitions of catastrophe are beginning to fill the air. Then comes the catastrophe itself; and the last section of this book presents Captain Stirn in the agony and delirium which seizes him after his deed of horror. The book is impressive and absorbing both by force and vividness of the author's style and imagination and by the vigorous sincerity and idealism which penetrate it throughout.

THE MAKING OF AN ENGLISHMAN. By W. L. GEORGE, New Edition with a New Preface.

_New Edition of a Famous Novel_

This book was first published in 1914, and the author has now written a new preface, explaining how the War has modified his views, but saying that whatever the Englishman may become, he would still be "The man of my choice, with whom I wrangle because he is my brother, far from whom I could not live, who quietly grins at my internationalism and makes allowances for me because, Englishman though I be, I was not born in his d.a.m.ned and dear little island."