The qualities that created for John Strange Winter her immense popularity are pre-eminently conspicuous in ‘Love and Twenty.’ The book shows that the author can wield the pen with all her old mastery. There is the same richness of invention, the same simplicity of manner, the same warmth of colouring, and the same tender pathos. No woman writer indeed can contest John Strange Winter’s supremacy in her own dominion.
HIS REVERENCE THE RECTOR. By Sarah Tytler
Miss Sarah Tytler’s new book deals with the personalities of an old-world type of county family, and incidentally discusses some semi-political questions and the problems of village life. Yet there is no lack of story, which is carefully constructed, written with the author’s accustomed polish, and may be recommended as among the best of the works of fiction penned by this thoughtful writer.
LORD EVERSLEIGH’S SINS. By Violet Tweedale
The love affairs of a modern peer best describes Violet Tweedale’s new book. It is a wonderfully strong story, is written with great cogence, and displays a grasp of character and a power of expression immensely in advance of anything the author has previously effected. In this novel the author has ‘found’ herself.
THE INFORMER. By Fred Whishaw
Mr. Fred Whishaw here presents a convincing picture of an honest Russian official who, opposed to the apostles of violence and bloodshed in his unhappy country, finds himself in a position which grows hateful to him. So realistic are many of the incidents in this Romance of the Discontented, that the reader will probably come to the conclusion, perhaps a correct one, that Mr. Fred Whishaw has drawn upon actual facts rather than upon his unassisted imagination.
THE FACE IN THE FLASHLIGHT. By Florence Warden
Miss Florence Warden’s new novel comprises a powerful study of the evils of gambling. The villain of the piece—a portrait drawn with great subtlety and skill—murders a dissipated youth to whom he acts as tutor, and attempts the life of his wife In order to gratify his passion for gambling. The story would be noteworthy if only for the presentation of ‘Mattie,’ who witnesses the crime, and yet is powerless to prevent the marriage of her friend with the murderer. The book is original and forceful, and the lover of fiction who omits its perusal will ‘only have himself to blame.’
THE WAR OF THE SEXES. By F. E. Young, Author of ‘The Triumph of Jill,’ ‘A Dangerous Quest,’ etc.