The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . to whom he is devoted in afashion that only a knightly-heartedhero would understand. This is trulya romance with the fragrance of truehomage, as well as the ring of honestfitrife in its course. The author hasfairly followed the opening advice ofthe Tinker: As for your book, wot you have todo is to give em a little blood nowand then with plentv of love and youcant go far wrong. It is to be honed that we have notfollowed the bad example of the ad-vertisers. The book is not more fas-cinatng and even more hu
The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . to whom he is devoted in afashion that only a knightly-heartedhero would understand. This is trulya romance with the fragrance of truehomage, as well as the ring of honestfitrife in its course. The author hasfairly followed the opening advice ofthe Tinker: As for your book, wot you have todo is to give em a little blood nowand then with plentv of love and youcant go far wrong. It is to be honed that we have notfollowed the bad example of the ad-vertisers. The book is not more fas-cinatng and even more human thanLoma Doone. It is not so srood asThe Prisoner of Zenda nor Underthe Eed Eobe. But it is so goodthat we are afraid it will not be abest seller, and it is so delightfulthat we should like to see the authorget the desire of his heart, whateverthat mieht well happen to be. (Bos-ton : Little. Brown, and Company. Toronto:pany). William T\Trell and Com- * DECAUSP] Mrs. Anne Warner has^ given use such excellent literarytonics as The Rejuvenation of Aunt^larv and Susau Clever, we could. MR. JEFFERY FARXOL WHOSE ROMANCE, THE BROAD HIGHWAY. IS AN ADMIRABLE RECORD OF LOVE AND ADVENTURE pardon in her a good deal of imposi-tion. However, not much excuse canbe found for her latest novel, HowLeslie Loved, cleverly written thoughit be, except in as much as its hum-our might appeal to some persons andagain in as much as others might re-gard it as a delightful satire on thefrothings of the English title is a good indication of thespirit, but the spirit is not the truespirit of the subject; that is. the bookdoes not give a good general idea ofthe people whom one would meet infirst-class London drawing-rooms. Un-doubtedly it does not pretend to givesuch idea, and in that very lack ofpretension and realisation it becomesat once, unfortunately, a misleadingessay in fiction. If a novel gives afaithful account of fiome sphere in life,?even if it fails as a romance, it is atleast
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